I think Adam's old plan for the Platform directory was to migrate from WebCore/platform piece-by-piece, starting with related groups of classes that are already free of layering violations. That seems like a sensible approach to me as it allows the work to happen incrementally.
- Maciej On Feb 28, 2013, at 12:41 PM, Žan Doberšek <zandober...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 6:31 PM, Darin Adler <da...@apple.com> wrote: > There may be a misunderstand of what the “platform layer” is. > > We should not move all platform-specific files into the platform directory! > Please do not make the changes in bug 110330 until we have discussed this. > > The idea is not that all platform-specific code is in the WebCore/platform > directory. Instead, the idea is that WebCore/platform contains code that the > rest of WebCore is built on top of that creates a platform independent > abstraction. > > To do this, we need to eliminate dependencies from the platform directory to > the rest of WebCore. > > At this time, we are far from that. Many dependencies on the DOM and other > such things have crept into the platform directory. > > The real point of having a separate library for the platform directory is not > to segregate all platform-specific code, but rather to have a coherent > platform independence library that we can rely on for most > platform-independence and minimize the need for platform-independent code. > > -- Darin > > Understood. Thanks for the explanation, much appreciated. Will held off the > work for the GTK-specific files until appropriate. > > For the sake of clarity and if in anyone's interest, I'm linking two more > bugs: > https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21354 - meta bug for platform > layering violations > https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75664 - meta bug for the platform > layer migration > > Regards, > -Z > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org > https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev
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