On 2011-03-23, at 12:17, Adam Barth wrote: > On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 11:38 AM, Mark Rowe <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 2011-03-23, at 03:33, Adam Barth wrote: >>> On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 12:22 AM, Mark Rowe <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> On 2011-03-22, at 23:50, Adam Barth wrote: >>>>> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 8:14 PM, Mark Rowe <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>> Product names for targets are redundantly declared in the Xcode project >>>>>> when they're already defined in the .xcconfig files. >>>>> >>>>> My plan for this issue is to remove the product names from the >>>>> xcconfig files once they're not needed by the generated xcodeproj >>>>> files. >>>> >>>> That seems backwards. JavaScriptCore.xcconfig defines how to create >>>> JavaScriptCore.framework. The name of the framework (e.g., PRODUCT_NAME) >>>> is an important part of that, much like the install path, Info.plist file, >>>> etc. I don't see how we benefit from that information being spread around. >>> >>> The information about how to create JavaScriptCore.framework is >>> already spread around to a certain extent. For example, >>> JavaScriptCore.xcconfig does not contain the list of files that need >>> to be built or information about the dependencies. I'm having a hard >>> time seeing what the practical difference is between specifying the >>> product name in the xcodeproj file or the xcconfig file. >> >> What's the argument for changing where it is specified? Is it simply >> because gyp doesn't know better? > > Yes. Also, the names of the other targets are stored in the xcodeproj > files. I don't see this as a blocking issue, do you? > >>>>>>> One area that I could use some help from one or more Apple folks is >>>>>>> making sure that this build system integrates properly with Apple's >>>>>>> internal build system. Based on my (incomplete!) understanding of >>>>>>> Apple's internal build system, there are at least two options: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> 1) Apple's internal build system consumes Source in its entirety and >>>>>>> builds a master WebKit.xcodeproj (or a Makefile), which abstracts >>>>>>> further details about the build, such as how subsequent xcodeproj are >>>>>>> created or how many libraries WebKit is factored into (e.g., letting >>>>>>> us extract WTF from JavaScriptCore). >>>>>> >>>>>> Making that particular change is completely unrelated to GYP. >>>>> >>>>> My understanding is that it would solve the Apple internal build >>>>> system integration issue because the Apple internal build system would >>>>> transfer control to the master WebKit.xcodeproj, which could then >>>>> invoke GYP to generate the remaining xcodeproj files. >>>> >>>> I'm not particularly keen on a solution that involves manually invoking >>>> xcodebuild to build projects. It becomes very complicated to ensure that >>>> the correct settings, including any overridden settings, make it down to >>>> the nested invocations of xcodebuild. >>> >>> I'm not sure I've correctly communicated how I envision this approach >>> working. If approach (2) doesn't work out for whatever reason, I can >>> build a mockup of how this would work, which will be more concrete. >> >> You'll need to provide more detail then because I cannot see how this would >> work in a manner that doesn't cause the problems I have noted. > > As I wrote above, we can discuss this more at a later date, if necessary. > >>>>>>> 2) For each submission to Apple's internal build system, we create a >>>>>>> branch, generate xcodeproj files, and check them into the branch. >>>>>>> Apple's internal build system can then "svn export" the branch and see >>>>>>> xcodeproj files, as today. >>>>>> >>>>>> While this is certainly technically feasible, it would add a huge amount >>>>>> of overhead to the process of performing a submission. >>>>> >>>>> How often do you submit WebKit to the Apple internal build system? If >>>>> that's sensitive information, I'm just looking for an order of >>>>> magnitude (e.g., every revision, every hour, every day, every week). >>>>> As a reference, the Chromium project creates one branch per day for >>>>> daily builds. >>>> >>>> I don't see how the frequency is relevant. >>> >>> The relevancy arises from the observation that the overhead is >>> proportional to the frequency. If we only submit WebKit to Apple's >>> internal build system once a week, then this approach won't cause too >>> much branch proliferation. If, on the other hand, we're submitting >>> every revision, then we're talking about doubling or tripling the >>> revision burn rate, which might not be desirable. >> >> The rate at which we use SVN revisions or the number of branches isn't of >> particular concern to me. The simple fact is that your proposal turns a >> single, trivial operation (create a tag) in to a sequence of more >> complicated operations (create a branch, check it out, run a script to >> generate a bunch of files, test that it builds, commit the new files, create >> a tag). What used to be a single command-line operation that took a second >> to run is now a series of operations that takes 5+ minutes to complete. > > 5 minutes doesn't sound like much of a burden given that it's paid > only by one person (as opposed to every contributor) can easily be > automated.
Of course it's ok with you; you're not the one that you're proposing making things 300x slower for. >>>>> In any case, I'm glad we've found a technically feasible solution. >>>> >>>> We've had at least one technically feasible solution from day zip: check >>>> in the generated project files. >>> >>> From my perspective, approach (2) is more desirable than checking in >>> generated project files because approach (2) encapsulates >>> Apple-internal build process to Apple folks, more specifically to the >>> Apple folks who interact with the Apple-internal build system. >>> Checking in generated project files, on the other hand, imposes a >>> maintenance burden on all WebKit contributors. >> >> The maintenance burden you mention is minuscule in comparison to the >> existing requirement of updating umpteen different build systems, including >> the impossible-to-hand-edit Xcode project files. This is particularly true >> when we're still going to be updating umpteen minus one build systems for >> the foreseeable future. If the Xcode project files were the only remaining >> project files then I'd certainly take this argument more seriously. > > Yes, unifying all our various build systems is a long journey and this > is just the first step. I'm glad that we agree that checking in the generated project files would create only a minuscule burden. >> One issue that's been touched on but not stated explicitly is what the >> workflow will be for the average developer that wants to build WebKit. >> Currently to update and build I do something like the following: >> git svn rebase (or svn up) >> make debug >> >> Presumably people that use this workflow would need to add an extra step >> between those two commands to generate project files? > > That would flow should work fine. There's no need to alter it. It would obviously work fine if the project files were checked in. It obviously doesn't work as-is with gyp, which is what led me to raise the issue. - Mark _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
