[webkit-dev] WebKit coverage (a little welcome present)

[Maciej Stachowiak]

On May 4, 2007, at 3:45 PM, Holger Freyther wrote:

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> Am 04.05.2007 um 23:59 schrieb Maciej Stachowiak:
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>>> So is that of interest for anyone?
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>> Looks awesome to me. I think we should get your scripts in the  
>> repository and consider setting up a buildbot to eventually run  
>> the tests in a gcov-enabled build. Can you submit some patches?
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> For now the sourcecode can be found here www.openembedded.org/ 
> ~zecke/coverage/webkit/WebKitToolsCoverage.tar but there are  
> probably some issues which I want to mention before posting it to  
> the bug tracker.
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> 	- The .css and image files are copied from LTP (http:// 
> ltp.sourceforge.net/coverage/lcov.php, http:// 
> ltp.cvs.sourceforge.net/ltp/utils/analysis/lcov/bin/genhtml? 
> revision=1.11&view=markup). Is that GPL an issue, should we  
> recreate a green, red and amber 1x1 image? Should the css be  
> changed/recreated?

We'd prefer not to have GPL code the repository. I think for green,  
red and amber images, recreating them is best. For the CSS, we could  
probably get someone to help make a clean room version unless the  
excerpt was small enough to constitute fair use.

> 	- The page layout is inspired by lcov as well. I don't think this  
> is an issue.

Agreed.

> 	- The regenerate-coverage-display and cov.py originate from the  
> monotone project. ATM I try to track the origin and find the  
> license. I have identified the original author and will drop him a  
> mail.

Thanks!

Regards,
Maciej