[v8-juice] r2264 committed - Edited wiki page HomePage through web user interface.

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Revision: 2264
Author: sgb...@googlemail.com
Date: Thu Feb 21 10:19:21 2013
Log: Edited wiki page HomePage through web user interface.
http://code.google.com/p/v8-juice/source/detail?r=2264

Modified:
/wiki/HomePage.wiki

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--- /wiki/HomePage.wiki Mon Dec 24 02:18:50 2012
+++ /wiki/HomePage.wiki Thu Feb 21 10:19:21 2013
@@ -7,10 +7,13 @@

Alternately, the [V8Convert] API provides a header-only library which
implements extended/improved versions of the v8-juice core type conversions
and function/property/class binding features, omitting features which would
require non-header implementations. As of mid-2011, the vast majority (over
99%) of the development is happening in the [V8Convert] tree, and v8-juice
is being touched only for bugfixes and an occasional back-port of
v8-convert features.

+
To any members of the Campbell Soup Company: i would really appreciate it
if you guys [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V8_(beverage) don't sue me over
this project's name] :-D. It's all in good fun! (And it took me 10 minutes
to come up with a project name for which 'JUICE' is an appropriate acronym.
So i beg you, please don't let that effort be in vain!)

==Code/Project status==

+*ACHTUNG ACHTUNG ACHTUNG: a series of incompatible deprecations and
behaviour changes made to v8 in late 2012 and early 2013 have broken
the "classic" v8-juice library and _no effort will be made to update it to
accommodate v8's changes_. [V8Convert], on the other hand, has been/is
being updated to work with newer v8 versions.*
+
v8-juice is primarily an experimentation ground, and not a product which
aims to have a "1.0" release (it uses the release date as its version
number). That said, i like to keep my own client code working, and will try
not to make any major changes which break things unless there is a good
reason to do so. Also, the core library parts (primarily the
[ConvertingTypes type conversions], which are the most-central component)
are based off of [http://SpiderApe.sourceforge.net much older
implementations i wrote for SpiderMonkey], and they've had a stable
interface for some years now.

v8-juice is believed to work well, without any undocumented crash
conditions and whatnot. It is used in at least one high-profile commercial
product (which i unfortunately am not at liberty to name) to simplify the
C++/JS binding process. In particular, the newer [V8Convert] API makes
binding C/C++ functions and classes to !JavaScript really simple (making it
any simpler would probably require a code generator).