Does juju work with a JavaScript-less mongodb?

[Michael Hudson-Doyle]

On 9 Dec 2013 22:58, "John Arbash Meinel" <john at arbash-meinel.com> wrote:
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> On 2013-12-09 13:43, James Page wrote:
> > If we can ditch the requirement for v8 generally, then that will
> > make security vulnerability management for the mongodb juju package
> > a whole lot easier - and the Ubuntu Security Team a whole lot
> > happier!
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> > It will also make the packaging a bit simpler; MongoDB upstream use
> > a shim'ed scons build file for the embedded v8 which does not work
> > with arm right now; fixing that was on my list for this week.
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> I don't have any idea what v8 actually does inside the Mongo binary,
> so I have very little to go on to say whether we need it or not. I
> know it is part of the 'map/reduce' syntax, which I don't think we use
> a lot of, and if that is the only use case, then it certainly sounds
> like we can avoid having it.
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> According to this:
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http://blog.mongolab.com/2013/06/new-features-in-mongodb-2-4-2/#V8_JavaScript_Engine
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> It affects mapReduce, group, eval and $where. And I'm pretty sure I've
> seen both eval and $where in our code.

I could only find them in test code. And once piece of compat code for old
mongo.

Cheers, mwh

> John
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