I think our number of different build systems is getting out of hand. Since gyp is being successfully used to build across platforms, and maintained by people who also work on some WebKit ports (and can thus likely be adapted to our needs), I'd like to consider whether we can use it for Apple's ports, and maybe consider rolling it out to additional ports over time. The gyp strategy of creating platform- native project files sounds like a good general approach.
- Maciej On Jul 9, 2009, at 9:23 PM, Dimitri Glazkov wrote:
Dear WebKiteurs, In our persisting quest to be more like a common WebKit port, we have added Chromium build files to the tree this afternoon. These files are WebCore/WebCore.gypi and JavaScriptCore/JavaScriptCore.gypi and they are the GYP include files. As you may know, we use GYP (http://code.google.com/p/gyp) for generating MSVC, XCode, Scons, and even Make projects for Chromium. We are rather fond of GYP. Perhaps it is because it allows us to maintain one set of project files for all three Chromium platforms; or maybe because it lets us to do things like WebCore.gypi, where we can just mindlessly add all project files to the list and then use various neat GYP filtering facilities to narrow them down to sets that are relevant for specific builds; or maybe because it easifies creating cross-platform and cross-build-system targets, actions, and rules; or maybe because we just love saying "Gyp!" I don't truthfully know. What I do know is that starting now, we'd love for you to remember WebCore.gypi and JavaScriptCore.gypi when you are adding or removing files from WebCore or JavaScriptCore. Thanks to the power of GYP, you don't have worry whether this file will be used by Chromium: the rule is that if there's a project file change, it applies to the *.gypi files. The format is very simple and intuitive, a simple Python/JSONey list+dict. Thank you for your attention, men and women of WebKit. :DG< _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
_______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
