[webkit-dev] Cleaning up directories in WebCore

[Adam Barth]

I've been looking for ways to improve the hackability of WebCore, and
one thing that's been bothering me is the organization of our files.
It seems like we're due for a bit of "fall cleaning" for directories.
We've talked about some of these ideas before, but I wanted to put
them all in one email so we can see the big picture.

Below is a concrete proposal for moving some directories around.  In
this approach, we'll have a "Features" directory to contain logically
self-contained features, like WebAudio and MediaStream, that are part
of the engine but that aren't tightly coupled with the DOM, Layout, or
Rendering.  We'd also have a new "events" directory in "dom" to
contain the large number of event-related files that we've accreted.
The "history" directory would move into "page" (we could actually
merge these directories because history is so small).  Finally,
"manual-tests" and "platform" would move out of WebCore entirely.

Features/  <-- New folder for (roughly) self-contained features
  notifications/
  storage/
  fileapi/
  webaudio/
  mediastream/
  workers/
  websockets/
  inspector/
manual-tests/  <-- Move outside of Source
dom/
  events/  <-- New folder for the 106 files that match dom/*Event*
page/
  history/  <-- Moved from top-level
platform/  <-- Move to Source/Platform

The "html" and "page" directories also contain a bunch of unrelated
files (presumably because they're attractive locations for folks to
add files).  Once we do the directory moves above, I'll send out
another proposal for cleaning up those directories a bit.

Please let me know if you have any thoughts.

Thanks!
Adam