If our binding code is already upstream by then, Darin may be able to
keep Chromium building throughout the process.
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26567

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Jeremy Orlow<jor...@chromium.org> wrote:
> FYI from the webkit mailing list.
>
> We'll probably want to prepare a similar CL for our binding generating code
> and whoever is doing the merges should look out for this change being
> landed.
>
> J
>
> On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 10:46 PM, Darin Adler <da...@apple.com> wrote:
>>
>> The IDL file format we use to generate our bindings has some things in
>> common with WebIDL and many differences. There are extended attributes we
>> use that exist in WebIDL but with a different name.
>>
>> As a first step in making our IDL syntax be as close to the WebIDL
>> standard as possible, I’d like to move our extended attributes so they go in
>> the appropriate place in the syntax. Ours currently come later in an
>> attribute definition; WebIDL puts them before the attribute definition.
>>
>> I have a patch to do this in this bug
>> <https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26398>. Currently the patch
>> contains the code changes to make the binding machinery parse the new
>> syntax, and a couple hand-converted files.
>>
>> I plan to write a script to convert all the IDL files to the new syntax.
>> Should be easy.
>>
>> Not sure about what impact this will have for V8.
>>
>>    -- Darin
>>
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