On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 11:06 AM, David Kilzer<ddkil...@webkit.org> wrote: > >> So, does anyone think this would be a bad idea, or have any >> alternate suggestions on how to improve things? > > > What about adding support for waf to gyp?
+1. I think GYP took the right step back from project files to a meta-format from which you could generate project files, and we have a pretty good record at Chromium to show that this was a good idea. > >> The only format I'm not sure if we could automate > reliably would be the >> XCode format (at least, on non-Mac >> machines), because IIUC we'd need some sort of parser for it, >> but Apple is the only port maintaining those directly IIUC, >> as now Chromium will be using GYP to update their XCode >> projects. > > If you hand-edit Xcode project files enough times you start to understand > them, but you also may go insane in the process. I don't know that you have > to write a full parser for it, but there is some non-trivial, minimal > structure you have to understand to update the file properly. GYP generates very nice XCode projects -- they are always properly sorted, logically structured, and clean. >> So even if we couldn't solve the XCode issue, that >> would drop it to updating two locations tops. > > I count 6 build systems in use currently (SCons support was added and removed > within the last year): > > - Apple's Xcode > - Apple's vcproj (also used by at least one other Windows port) > - wx Bakefile (which will be replaced by waf soon) > - Qt Qmake > - GTK GNUMakefile > - Google's gyp (added recently) > > Are any of the other ports going to switch to generating their build files > using gyp? While I have no cycles to do it, I certainly hope that somebody would try. Switching to GYP for our port was an incredible experience. No more vcproj-muddling, needing to have a Mac to edit XCode files, and trying to understand how various build systems work. This approach also encourages you to unify the thinking about targets/actions/rules, and GYP has already solved this problem for pretty much all known platforms. I highly encourage you guys to check out Chromium and see it in action. The generation occurs silently at each update (which is something that could be hooked in to update-webkit script), it's accurate, and very seamless. :DG< _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
