[systemd-devel] [RFC 0/6] A network proxy management daemon, systemd-proxy-discoveryd

[Cameron Norman]

On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 5:17 AM, Tomasz Bursztyka
<tomasz.bursztyka at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> [snip]
>
> As a notice, this is nothing new. Such standalone daemon has been already
> done by the past, pacrunner. systemd-proxy-discoveryd will more or less
> implement the same ideas with improvements. It will get rid of big JS
> engines like spidermonkey or v8 which are overkill for the tiny PAC files
> to be executed on, for instance. From pacrunner experience, APIs will be
> also improved.
>
> This one is using - at least in this RFC - the duktape JS engine to run
> the PAC files. Note it is not provided in this patchset. Latest version
> 1.2.x was used.
>

It seems that duktape is really not in a suitable shape to be packaged
in distributions (https://github.com/svaarala/duktape/issues/94). Do
you have any plans to get it into shape?

Also, and I am just curious, what is the specific reasoning duktape is
preferred? Smaller memory footprint?

Thanks,
--
Cameron Norman