[webkit-dev] Using Visual Studio 2010 for Apple's Windows WebKit port

[Adam Barth]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 6:04 PM, Jeremy Orlow <jorlow at chromium.org> wrote:
> How hard will the transition be?  If it's going to take a lot of time and
> cause a lot of churn anyway, would this be a good time to try and make that
> port use GYP or CMake?  (I assume the answer is probably no, but figured it
> was worth asking anyway. :-)

Eric and I are experimenting with GYP and CMake, but we don't have
much to report at this time.  Stay tuned?

Adam


> On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Adam Roben <aroben at apple.com> wrote:
>> On Jan 31, 2011, at 3:41 PM, Peter Kasting wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Adam Roben <aroben at apple.com> wrote:
>>> Please let me (and the list) know if this change will cause you trouble,
>>> and if there's something we can do to make the transition easier.
>>
>> This may make life hard on Chromium as right now we don't support building
>> with VS2010.  We are working on adding support (I think
>> http://crbug.com/25628 may be the closest bug).  I'm not sure what time
>> frame that will happen in.
>>
>> I don't think we have any plans to drop VS2005 support.  If WebKit drops
>> support it may force us to do so as well.
>> In both cases above we're not so much impacted by vcproj/sln changes
>> (since we use GYP to construct our vcproj and sln files) as we are by code
>> changes, e.g. code that requires VS2010 to build correctly.
>>
>> I doubt that maintaining compatibility with VS2005's compiler would be an
>> issue. As long as there's an EWS and/or buildbot to catch problems, we
>> should be able to work around any compiler differences. I didn't mean to
>> imply that we'd intentionally break compilation with VS2005's compiler; all
>> I meant was that using VS2005 to build Apple's port would no longer be
>> supported.
>> -Adam
>>
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