Polkit on Duktape

Colin Walters walters at verbum.org
Thu Aug 13 08:58:29 PDT 2015


On Wed, Aug 12, 2015, at 11:28 PM, Jasper St. Pierre wrote:

> For performance reasons related to boot speed on our platform, today I
> ported polkit to use Duktape. 

A notable pain I see here is that in dropping mozjs support, it will effectively
force a branch, and that will in turn complicate security updates and any future
development.

This list does seem like the right place to ask downstream distributors
which they'd prefer.

It's also worth noting that this mirrors a similar discussion in systemd:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030710.html


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