Does juju work with a JavaScript-less mongodb?

[Michael Hudson-Doyle]

David Cheney <david.cheney at canonical.com> writes:

> On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 12:34 PM, Michael Hudson-Doyle <
> michael.hudson at canonical.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> As some people know, I've been looking at getting Juju running on 64-bit
>> ARM systems.  With some patching, I can cross-build juju using gccgo and
>> the resulting bits seem to work.  But there is no mongodb for 64-bit
>> ARM, because there is no port of the v8 JavaScript engine for 64-bit
>> ARM.  It is possible to build mongodb without JavaScript support
>> however, and so the thought occurred: does juju actually require
>> JavaScript support in its mongodb?  Grepping suggests that it will be OK
>> (a few tests will break).  I can and will "just try it", but building
>> mongo takes a while so I thought I'd ask here :)
>>
>> One of the things you don't have without JavaScript is the mongo shell,
>> which certainly makes things more awkward -- but not a complete show
>> stopper I think...
>>
>
> Does this also disable the backup/restore stuff that we need for well,
> backup and restore.

I don't think so.  I'll let you know :)

Cheers,
mwh