[webkit-dev] ANGLE

[Darin Fisher]

On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 8:26 PM, Darin Fisher <darin at chromium.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 4:21 PM, <kb at inf.u-szeged.hu> wrote:
>
>> >
>> > 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.
>>
>>
> I'm surprised it isn't pulled as a .zip like the other third-party
> libraries (like icu, libxml, etc.) through the update-webkit script.
>
> -Darin
>

I realize now that I was only thinking about the WebKit windows port that
relies on WebKitSupportLibrary.zip.  I was wondering why ANGLE was not just
included in there, but now I see that that zip isn't used on other
platforms.

-Darin
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