[webkit-dev] ANGLE

kb at inf.u-szeged.hu kb at inf.u-szeged.hu
Sat Aug 14 16:21:23 PDT 2010


>
> On Aug 13, 2010, at 4:25 AM, Zoltan Herczeg wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> ANGLE looks like a graphics helper library. Why it is placed in the root
>> WebKit directory? Perhaps WebCore/platform/graphics or some kind of
>> /3rparty directory would be better, wouldn't it?
>
> ANGLE is a library from Google (http://code.google.com/p/angleproject/)
> which is mirrored in the WebKit tree for convenience. Since it's not
> actually part of WebKit, it was felt that keeping it the root was best.
>

/3rdparty/ANGLE would be more straightforward in my opinion. Having this
in the root is deceptive, personally I did not realized that it is a
mirrored tree before your explantation.



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