On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Peter Kasting <pkast...@chromium.org>wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Adam Barth <aba...@chromium.org> wrote:
>
>> Thanks to some recent work by Dimitri, Victor, and others, hacking on
>> WebKit is now easier than ever.  If you work on WebKit and Chromium, I
>> recommend using a hybrid source tree:
>>
>> http://dev.chromium.org/developers/contributing-to-webkit
>>
>
> With the patches I have landed, combined with the four patches awaiting
> review on https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27323 , I have been able
> to successfully check out WebKit inside Chromium using the depot_tools (not
> Cygwin) SVN; update it; prepare, create, apply, unapply, and submit patches;
> and build WebKit cleanly and run Safari with it.
>
> Therefore, once those four patches land (might be a little while, one may
> cause problems for Apple folks), I claim that this setup is finally ready
> for Windows developers to use.  There are still a few rough edges (creating
> patches to files that don't have svn:eol-style set may result in patches
> that don't apply/unapply cleanly, due to an apparent SVN bug; I haven't
> tested all the scripts [e.g. bugzilla-tool], just the ones I use), but by
> and large things work.
>
> PK
>


This is awesome news!  Thanks Peter :-)
-Darin

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