On Fri, 2010-11-05 at 08:19 -0700, Evan Martin wrote: > On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 4:53 AM, Gustavo Noronha Silva <g...@gnome.org> wrote: > > On Fri, 2010-11-05 at 01:52 -0700, Eric Seidel wrote: > >> This is a bad idea. Please don't do this. > >> > >> Unless mod_bw comes installed in a normal Apache distribution, you're > >> asking that *every* webkit developer install mod_bw in order to run > >> the layout tests. > > > > We already ask them to install python, perl, ruby, apache itself, php, > > in some cases additional codecs and whatnot. An additional apache module > > is not the end of the world, is it? > > One thing you may have overlooked: installing software like this is a > lot harder on platforms other than Linux.
I was actually thinking of Windows when arguing my point =), since for us the module is one apt-get away, and I assume for Mac there would be a similarly easy way of getting it installed. But since we have other ways of solving the issue with reasonable effort, I don't think having one more requirement makes sense indeed. I'm just trying to argue that if (and I emphasize the if here) it was necessary, another module would not be that bad. I understand from Eric's message that Mac comes with ruby pre-installed, but that is not true for most GNU/Linux distributions or Windows, and that was certainly not a show-stopper when it got added to beautify diffs =). I do agree with the goal of keeping the number of requirements to a minimum, though, so let's see if we can get this done with the cgi Phillip found! Cheers, -- Gustavo Noronha Silva <g...@gnome.org> GNOME Project _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
