[webkit-dev] Towards a unified build system

[Dirk Pranke]

On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 9:33 AM, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs at apple.com> wrote:
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> On Mar 1, 2011, at 5:18 AM, Adam Roben wrote:
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>> Reducing the number of build systems is a face-meltingly worthy goal. I have one small question:
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>> On Mar 1, 2011, at 4:21 AM, Adam Barth wrote:
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>>> 3) Remove the xcodeproj files from svn.webkit.org and integrate the
>>> generation of xcodeproj files with the WebKit build / update scripts.
>>> At this point, contributors will notice that something has changed
>>> because there'll be one less build system to worry about keeping up to
>>> date!
>>
>> Won't contributors who don't use update-webkit/build-webkit also notice something has changed, because they will no longer have any project files? (I ask this as a contributor who doesn't use update-webkit/build-webkit.)
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> Another consequence of step 3 is it would break submissions to Apple's central build system, since those pull from the repository with vanilla SVN and do not run special scripts afterwards.
>

Can that be changed? It would seem like a really unfortunate barrier
to conversion. Alternatively, I suppose, we could just check in the
derived files for some ports; it wouldn't be any worse than what we
have now.

-- Dirk