Does juju work with a JavaScript-less mongodb?

[John Arbash Meinel]

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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!
> 
> 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.
> 

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.

According to this:
http://blog.mongolab.com/2013/06/new-features-in-mongodb-2-4-2/#V8_JavaScript_Engine

It affects mapReduce, group, eval and $where. And I'm pretty sure I've
seen both eval and $where in our code.

John
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