On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 5:38 AM, Adam Treat <tr...@kde.org> wrote: > On Friday 10 July 2009 12:23:50 am 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; > > Gyp sounds remarkably similar to CMake to me. I've never heard of Gyp > before > so I don't know much more about it than what you've said in this email, but > CMake has been around for quite sometime and is in very wide use in the > Open > Source community. Can you say what prompts the use of Gyp over a tool like > CMake?
>From a quick glance at cmake's website, it seems that it's a build system and not a project file generator. I think it was pretty important to us to generate project files so that you can use the full power of each platform's IDE and toolchain. J
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