Bug#1092912: quickjs: somewhat dead upstream, switch to quickjs-ng ?

[Jérémy Lal]

Source: quickjs
Version: 2024.01.13-5
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

it seems that https://github.com/quickjs-ng/quickjs
is leading the dev of that project now.

A list of differences with the original project:
https://quickjs-ng.github.io/quickjs/diff

Also, they do release versions (0.8.0 is out).

Considering the huge community built upon quickjs-ng,
and the small set of reverse-deps (edbrowse),
I think it makes more sense to change upstream and add an
epoch to the version.

Jérémy

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