[webkit-dev] More thoughts on cleaning up the root directory

[Kenneth Rohde Christiansen]

So we have PerformanceTests, RegressionTests and manual. Why not
ManualTests?

Is it really a good idea to move platform out of WebCore? Lots of stuff
there seems quite WebCore related.

Cheers
Kenneth

On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Adam Barth <abarth at webkit.org> wrote:

> Here's a snapshot of my current thinking on where the files and
> folders currently in the top-level directory might go.
>
> There are a bunch of build-system related files that are currently in
> the root.  I'm not sure whether we should leave them in there or move
> them into Sources somewhere.  I'm tempted to put them into Sources so
> that Sources is self-contained package of all the stuff you need to
> build WebKit.  That said, having a top-level Makefile that kicks off
> the whole process also seems reasonable.
>
> Examples/
> PerformanceTests/
>  PageLoad/ (was PageLoadTests)
>  SunSpider/
>  HTMLParser/ (was WebCore/benchmarks/parser)
> RegressionTests/ (was LayoutTests)
>  manual/ (was WebCore/manual-tests)
> Sources/
>  automake/
>  cmake/
>  JavaScriptCore/
>  JavaScriptGlue/
>  Platform/ (was WebCore/platform)
>  WebCore/
>  WebKit/
>  WebKit2/
>  WTF/ (was JavaScriptCore/wtf)
>  ThirdParty/
>    ANGLE/
>    + Contents WebKitLibraries
> Tools/
> Websites/
> .gitattributes
> .gitignore
> ChangeLog
> Makefile
> Makefile.shared
>
> == UNSURE ==
> autogen.sh
> Android.mk
> common.pri
> cmakeconfig.h.cmake
> CMakeLists.txt
> configure.ac
> GNUmakefile.am
> wscript
> DerivedSources.pro
> WebKit.pri
> WebKit.pro
>
> In this layout, I haven't merged PerformanceTests and RegressionTests
> for two reasons.  First, the natural name, Tests, conflicts with
> tab-completing Tools.  Second, folks so commonly access the current
> LayoutTests directory that it seems a bit inefficient to place it
> another level lower in the directory hierarchy.
>
> Comments welcome, of course.  :)
>
> Adam
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