[webkit-dev] A proposal for "Platform Mechanisms"

[Jakob Petsovits]

On June 18, 2010, Anders Carlsson wrote:
> On Jun 17, 2010, at 2:04 PM, Jeremy Orlow wrote:
> > Overall, looks great!!
> > 
> > On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 6:05 PM, Anders Carlsson <andersca at apple.com> 
wrote:
> > > Also, PlatformMechanism is a Factory, and should be named accordingly.
> > > Or maybe it's a Source of clients/mechanisms.
> > 
> > Good point, it is a factory.
> > 
> > Is it a factory?  If so, I'd expect it to return PassOwnPtrs rather than
> > *'s.  With *'s I'd expect the class to retain ownership (and destroy
> > them when it's destroyed).
> 
> Currently I just called the class PlatformPolicies. It is kind of a factory
> but it will only create singletons that are never intended to be
> destroyed.

"Subsystems" might also be a term to consider, although I'm not sure if it fits 
better than other suggested names.