[webkit-dev] Common build system (was Re: WebKit Wishes)

[Ryosuke Niwa]

On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 6:09 AM, Mark Mentovai <mark at chromium.org> wrote:

> The parser (and the grammar) works the way it does because it’s just Python
>

This works great for people who like Python syntax but not for someone like
myself who dislikes Python syntax.

I also find it particularly annoying that people can use whatever Python
constructs they want to use in GYP. It dramatically reduces language
portability because you need to support quite a few Python constructs and
quirks in order to correctly parse GYP.

I personally would have much preferred for it be a simple JSON file.

- R. Niwa
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