Re: Serious E4X Rhino bug in Helma 1.6

Hi Joshua,

2007/7/19, Joshua Paine <[email protected]>:
> Looks like rhino builds since late March have a serious E4X bug with
> attribute literals (i.e., they don't work at all) but that they've fixed
> it in just the last 30 hours.
>
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=382098

That's unfortunate.

> I do not have the know how to build rhino myself, and I don't know what
> extra patches Helma uses. I think this warrants a respin of Helma 1.6,
> but failing that is there a kind soul who can build a really new rhino
> for me with whatever extra patches Helma applies?

I'm not a fan of ad-hoc re-releases, unless it's for really good
reasons. E4X in Rhino simply is work in progress, and it's save to
assume that there are more bugs in there that will be show stoppers
for some.

What I propose to do is to commit a new Rhino snapshot to CVS so
people can get it from there. Helma's Rhino jar is currently from the
Rhino1_6R6_BRANCH with just one patch added. You can always get Helma
Rhino patches from http://dev.helma.org/wiki/Rhino+Bugs+%26+Patches/

I think a good time for Helma 1.6.1 might be when Rhino 1.6R6 is
released (which should be pretty soon anyway) and some more Helma
fixes have piled up.

hannes

> Or if it's plausible for someone with no existing Java build environment
> setup (other than having the jdk installed) to setup such an environment
> and do it himself, I'll do it if someone can point the way.
>
> -Joshua
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