Re: [Edbrowse-dev] about compiling 3.5.1

[Kevin Carhart <kevin@carhart.net>]

Hi Chuck,

Thank you for the notes on this, and the shell script!

Kevin


On Sat, 21 Jun 2014, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:

> Kevin,
>
> My archlinux distro provides a js24 package that works with edbrowse
> 3.5.1, as does Fedora and a growing list of other distros. Debian's
> release does not yet work with edbrowse however. The team here mostly
> worked with the mozjs24 from Mozilla until the supported packages came
> along. I don't recall having difficulties compiling the Mozilla release,
> but the others can be more helpful, I'm sjre.
>
> Chuck
>
> On Sat, 21 Jun 2014, Kevin Carhart wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi all
>>
>> Wow, compiling the mozjs-24 has way more to it than in the past.  I'm finally
>> trying to do this.  Lots of weird errors so far.  Has anyone had difficulties
>> with the python requirements?  What do they need all of this python for?  Oh
>> well.. I guess I was spoiled by using old versions for a long time.
>>
>> If I want to try out things like parentNodes and attachEvent(), is 3.5.1 the
>> earliest version where these are found?  In other words, I have to go to
>> mozjs-24 to get these js features?  Or could I decouple these two things, give
>> edbrowse a slightly older js but still be able to use the latest edbrowse?
>>
>> I'm on a 32-bit CentOS.  I haven't been able to find mozjs-24 in package form,
>> either from yum or hunting around the rpm search engines so I have to compile.
>> I don't really know how out of date I am.  Is 32-bit still OK or is it very
>> ill-advised?  ... if you happen to know.
>>
>> thank you!
>> Kevin
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 7 May 2014, Karl Dahlke wrote:
>>
>>>> Hello - I am Kevin - I appreciate being able to lurk on the list
>>>
>>> Please continue to read and post, it is quite helpful,
>>> and perhaps you will join the development team if you find time.
>>>
>>> You may want to get and use 3.5.1,
>>> even though that is not an official version release yet.
>>> A lot of changes there; the required change of supporting mozjs 24, but also
>>> new features.
>>> One is attachEvent(), which you aluded to in your post.
>>> This is plain js, not jquery, but jquery may well use this feature
>>> to atttach events to actions.
>>> So pages that would attach a javascript function to a click or a load
>>> will now do something whereas they did nothing before.
>>>
>>> parentNode is also new;
>>> I try to connect each node to its parent when created.
>>> This is relevat to your description of the document tree,
>>> and yes web js uses and expects and even modifies this tree all over the
>>> place;
>>> we have to support it!
>>> If I am doing the parentnode properly, it would not be too hard
>>> to add in the reverse logic to build the child node links.
>>> Then write the functions to add new nodes
>>> into the tree dynamically.
>>> This is all moving forward, I think,
>>> in the right direction, but slowly,
>>> as it's just a couple of volunteers with some spare time.
>>> Let me know if you can get, build, and use the latest,
>>> and if you have further thoughts on design and development.
>>>
>>> Karl Dahlke
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