Hi webkit-dev, I'd like to gauge interest in the WTFURL work [1]. Currently, there are two WTFURL patches that have been up for review for over a month without a single comment:
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45085 https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45088 That leads me to believe this work is not desired by the project. It seems like there are a few paths forward: 1) I recruit folks to review the patches. To date, I've been waiting for Apple folks to review these patches on the theory that they might like to have input on this topic. If that's not necessary/desirable, I can expand my reviewer recruitment. 2) I can spam the review queue with all the WTFURL patches so that reviewer can see how the whole thing is going to work. Typically, we advise folks to land things like this in small, buildable chunks, which is what I've been doing. However, if there's a month latency between chunks, that means the project will never be finished. 3) I can delete the existing WTFURL code and stop work on the project. This path is easy, but it doesn't solve the underlying problem: lack of interoperability between ports that use different URL libraries. To improve interoperability, I can modify the separate URL libraries to converge their behavior based on a test suite. Of course, we'll never get perfect interoperability without using the same code, but we can easily get an order of magnitude better interoperability than we have today. The other cost of this path is an ongoing maintenance burden of have duplicate code that needs to be keep in sync. (There are other options, of course, but I've left off the ones that have been unpopular in the past.) I understand this work has been controversial, but I think its solving an important problem for the project. Thanks, Adam [1] By way of background, Chromium uses a different URL parsing library than other WebKit ports. In the interests of not fracturing the WebKit platform, I've been working on implementing a URL parsing library, called WTFURL, that meets the needs of both the WebKit and Chromium projects. _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
