Subj : Re: ANN: spidermonkey 0.0.1a released To : "John J. Lee" From : Brendan Eich Date : Tue Oct 07 2003 11:46 am John J. Lee wrote: >[reposting, since it didn't turn up on c.l.py.announce the first time] > >http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/spidermonkey/ > >This is the first release. There are known bugs, and interfaces may >change. > >Requires Python 2.3 and spidermonkey 1.5. Currently, Pyrex is required to >build it. It should work on any platform where spidermonkey runs. I've >only tested on Linux, though. > >spidermonkey is a Python/JavaScript bridge module, making use of Mozilla's >spidermonkey JavaScript implementation. > Don't you think it's a little confusing to use "spidermonkey" to mean something other than the Mozilla JS implementation written in C? Mozilla.org is in a glass house here about using names already used by other projects, but we're going to make amends soon. And here, the two things called "spidermonkey" are very close in the space of all software. Why not call this something that has Python in its name, or at least Py? /be .