I think the best way to make such points is to create a bug and post a patch.
-Filip On Jun 11, 2013, at 1:32 PM, wkcensorshipbypass00...@mailinator.com wrote: > Niwa, hi, > > CodeGenerator has already been rewritten in python, combining the following: > > * Mozilla's xpcom xpidl.py generator > * gobject's codegen.py > > The following work was done: > > - The xpidl generator was modified to understand Webkit's IDL file format > - gobject's codegen.py was modified to understand xpidl.py's AST object format > - gobject codegen.py's output formatter was modified to understand both > webkit datatypes and to output python > > It should be a trivial job to work out how to modify the code to output > other generators. The only thing to watch out for is that it was a very > fast hack put together quite quickly and there are unused parts (which > will never be used) that still have gobject codegen output. > > Functionally however it works perfectly. By contrast, attempting to > modify CodeGeneratorJS.pm to comprehend gobject took over eight weeks. > The python-based code-generator was completed in under six. > > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org > https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev