[webkit-dev] JavaScriptCore bindings

[Eric Seidel]

CoreFoundation is mostly open source.

There may be enough out there already to make these run on other  
platforms.

Not that you want to have to statically link in CF...

-eric

On Jul 25, 2005, at 2:36 PM, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:

>
> On Jul 25, 2005, at 2:26 PM, Justin Haygood wrote:
>
>
>> I decided to take a look at the bindings, and noticed that the  
>> core part and the JNI bindings use CoreFoundation throughout.  
>> Should this be reimplemented cross platform or not? (If so, It'll  
>> require alot of work... and I mean alot! I'm not exactly a good  
>> programmer here)
>>
>> If the core part and the JNI becomes cross-platform, bindings to  
>> other things could easily subclass from them and tie into the  
>> native system, but at least the core should be portable IMHO.  
>> (Just think, ActiveX bindings to JavaScriptCore... now that'll be  
>> awesome!)
>>
>
>
> My rough plan for this:
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> - Move Java and ObjC bindings higher up (to WebCore/WebKit)
>
> - Make core bindings code cross-platform
>
> - Add CoreFoundation-style plain C bindings (only for use on Mac OS X)
>
> Not sure when I or others will get to these tasks though.
>
> Cheers,
> Maciej
>
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