RFS: 0ad

[Vincent Cheng]

2011/4/11 Moritz Mühlenhoff <jmm at inutil.org>

> Vincent Cheng <vincentc1208 at gmail.com> schrieb:
> > I can't pressure the Debian Mozilla team
> > to maintain an older Spidermonkey version for a single piece of software
> > (and I'm sure that they have a lot of other work to do), and from the
> > replies I've seen so far, it seems that embedding Spidermonkey code in 0
> > A.D.'s source is a no-no, or at least strongly discouraged.
>
> The whole "embedding code copies" handling isn't entirely black and white.
> In cases, where a embedded code copy has no security implications we've
> already made sensible compromises, e.g. in the case of kompozer, where the
> embedded Gecko copy has no security implications. What is Spidermonkey
> used for in the case of 0ad?
>
> Cheers,
>        Moritz
>
>
To be honest, I don't know (but I'm sure Philip will be able to give a much
more satisfactory reply). However, for what it's worth, 0 A.D.'s website
does say that "The engine core is written in C++ for performance, but the
scripting language, javascript, is what we try to write as much in as
possible." [1]

- Vincent

[1] http://wildfiregames.com/0ad/page.php?c=46
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