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

[Ryosuke Niwa]

On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 1:17 AM, Jochen Eisinger <jochen at chromium.org>wrote:

> Another option is to add a webkit-patch command for modifying the build
> files. That way, the syntax doesn't need to be overly human friendly. There
> was also some attempt to write a tool to add files automatically:
> https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61772  I would expect that such a
> tool becomes easier if it would only modify one source of truth and
> generates all other artifacts such as Xcode projects from it.
>

I don't want build file's syntax to be so human unfriendly that I need a
tool for it.

Often times, these syntax problems can be improved dramatically by simple
changes. e.g. we had a similar discussion about TestExpectation syntax, and
I'm much happier with the new syntax even though the new syntax is
functionally equivalent to the old one, and two syntaxes are very similar.

On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 1:17 AM, Mark Rowe <mrowe at apple.com> wrote:

> I’ve experimented with this in the past and you’re right that it shouldn’t
> be particularly difficult to do. However, I suspect that the task would be
> similar in scope to defining an improved syntax for gyp. And if the syntax
> is the primary sticking point with gyp then it’d seem preferable to tackle
> initially.
>

Yeah. In fact, we can just come up with whatever syntax we like and convert
it to the existing gyp format if the syntax was the biggest issue.

- R. Niwa
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