[webkit-dev] Is the wxWidgets port maintained?

[Brent Fulgham]

Hi,

On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 11:44 PM, Eric Seidel <eric at webkit.org> wrote:

> This entire email thread makes me sad.
>
> I'm sad because we did this to ourselves (our porting systems/policies
> are lacking), we did this very abruptly (the last port we kicked out
> of webkit.org took a year?), and we don't have any clear policy for
> this sort of thing (adding/removing ports in webkit.org).
>

I agree that this is sad.  Wouldn't it be better to first agree on policies
for adding/removing ports from WebKit BEFORE giving Kevin his walking
papers?

Why don't we first decide that aspect of things, before giving small teams
the bum's rush?

I think that moving closer to one build system will help, but won't
> help those trying to advance WebCore from having to deal with 8
> different port APIs, 5 different networking libraries, 2 different XML
> parser, 4 different GraphicsContext implementations, and countless
> other configuration options!
>

Not to mention two JavaScript engines!


> Of course saying Wx is "dead code", begs the question as to what is
> needed for a port to be considered "live" in WebKit.org?  With our
> current porting architecture, I would argue that at least 3 full time
> people are probably needed, and that this should be considered before
> accepting new ports.
>

This is tantamount to saying that the only ports allowed in WebKit are
corporate-sponsored efforts. Is that what we want this project to be?

-Brent
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