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

[Jochen Eisinger]

On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 9:53 AM, Mark Rowe <mrowe at apple.com> wrote:

>
> On 2013-01-31, at 00:48, Adam Barth <abarth at webkit.org> wrote:
>
> >>> I would consider changing or improving gyp's syntax to be on the table
> >>> if it was needed to reach the goal.
> >>
> >> For what it’s worth, I also find the gyp syntax to be unpleasant. It
> feels as though it was optimized for being processed by a machine rather
> than for being written and maintained by humans.
> >
> > Unlike xcodeproj files.  :)
>
> Don’t get me wrong, Xcode projects suck for hand-editing too. However,
> they’re not intended to be edited by hand. Gyp files are, and so the
> expected level of human readability is much higher.
>

Many of us are actually editing the Xcode projects by hand, either because
they don't have Xcode or don't know how to use it. (Yes, that includes
coming up with a bunch of new UUIDs by hand)

best
-jochen
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