I think JavaScriptCore will need access to 'platform', too, to implement some
ES6 features.
Saam
On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 2:50 PM, Maciej Stachowiak <m...@apple.com> wrote:
>> On Mar 19, 2015, at 1:47 PM, Benjamin Poulain <benja...@webkit.org> wrote:
>>
>> On 3/18/15 9:43 PM, Myles C. Maxfield wrote:
>>> Hello, all,
>>>
>>> I’d like to announce that I intend to create a standalone static library
>>> from the current contents of WebCore/platform over the coming months. This
>>> will involve creating a “Platform" top-level directory and moving source
>>> files into it, one by one.
>>>
>>> There are a few reasons for this:
>>>
>>> 1. Enforcing the layering between Platform and WebCore. Moving Platform
>>> into its own target/directory can guarantee that nothing inside it knows
>>> about anything in WebCore.
>>> 2. Being able to test code in the Platform directory with TestWebKitAPI
>>> (without exporting Platform symbols from the WebCore library)
>>> 3. Managing conceptual complexity.
>>>
>>> Does anyone have any thoughts or feedback?
>>
>> That's an awesome project. That's gonna be a lot of work.
>>
>> How do you plan to do the interface between WebCore and Platform?
>>
>> Between WebCore and WebKit, we use interfaces with pure virtual functions
>> that are implemented by the clients.
>> Between WebCore and the platform, we have headers and each port has its own
>> implementation of that interface.
>>
>> Do you plan to move Platform behind a public interface or keep the current
>> model?
> I don’t think we need a model like the WebCore/WebKit interface. WTF is
> essentially like the proposed Platform library already, and it just exposes
> normal C++ headers and implementation files. I think the main benefit here is
> cleaning up the layering, as opposed to adding more abstraction. In fact, you
> could sort of think of WTF and Platform as logically the same library, with
> WTF being only the parts needed by JavaScriptCore, plus things that are
> logically at the same level (so basically non-GUI and no networking code).
> This almost makes me want to suggest a jokey name for Platform. I can’t off
> the top of my head think of a good expansion of OMG, though. Or BBQ.
> Regards,
> Maciej
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