Comment 87 for bug 740815

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In , Jorendorff (jorendorff) wrote :

> (In reply to comment #30)
> (Apologies if this is bikeshedding or a repeat of previous discussion)

(Well-aimed kick to the shins)

I don't think anything has changed since comment 5. See the last three paragraphs there.

> Since we're deliberately changing the name, maybe libspidermonkey is a better
> name? I agree that putting 185 in the name isn't good. When we change to 1.9.0,
> would we have to change the SO name? That can't be right.

It isn't ideal, but it reflects reality. I would be thrilled to ship a SM with no stupid version number in its name. We should totally do that, as soon as have a sane upgrade story. First things first.

Fixing SM versioning was a non-goal for this release. Help us get it right in the next one.

(In reply to comment #32)
> I don't think it matters a lot, honestly. I really would rather we ship.

This, with a bullet.