[webkit-dev] Large Source Reorganizations By External WebKit Ports

[Ojan Vafai]

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 2:25 PM, Brent Fulgham <bfulgham at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Peter,
>
> On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Peter Kasting <pkasting at google.com>
> wrote:
> >> Google used this same approach with their Chromium port, the side
> effects of
> >> which find us in year two (or three?) of the effort to merge those
> >> changes back into the core WebKit archive.
> >
> > Um, what?  The Chromium port is fully upstreamed and has been for some
> time.
> >  I'm not sure what you're saying here.  We are not forked and in fact
> have
> > no support for building Chromium with anything other than upstream
> WebKit.
>
> I admit that statement was a bit hyperbolic; however the Chromium
> source base was significantly reorganized when it was a 'secret'
> project, and took a lot of time to get in sync.  I'm wondering why
> Google, EA, and others have felt the need to do so.
>
> Note that there are still things that are not fully merged:  e.g.,
> FontPlatformData is still largely forked from the mainline
> implementation (e.g., arbitrarily different names for members).


AFAIK, Chromium didn't actively reorganize the source tree. The source tree
changed out from under us while we were still a private project. This is
just a natural side effect of not being part of the mainline source tree.
Stuff moves around (and it should!) as it makes sense to structure the files
differently.

Chromium's tree not tracking the move is just oversight in some cases.

Ojan
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