[webkit-dev] On web-exposing features disabled at runtime

[Dean Jackson]

On 14 Feb 2014, at 12:17 am, Sergio Villar Senin <svillar at igalia.com> wrote:

> En 11/02/14 21:04, Maciej Stachowiak escribiu:
>>>> 
>>>> Why not enabling the feature entirely on trunk? (and disable it when
>>>> shipping product by disabling the compile time flag?).
>>>> I think feature doing that tends to become stable a lot quicker.
>> Occasionally a feature is so experimental you don't even want it in nightly builds - it would cause too much instability.
>> 
>> But it's true, a lot of the time a feature is ready for testing in nightlies or developer builds, but should not be shipped just yet. I think a runtime flag is actually a good way to do that. The code that will actually compile and ship can more easily be tested that way (by testing with both modes of the flag).
> 
> So if I understood correctly the idea would be to bring the feature flag
> back and at the same time switch the runtime flag on by default for all
> the ports right?

FWIW this is what we agreed to do at the contributor’s meeting last year.

Enable by default in ToT (and thus nightly builds).
Compile-time disable on a shipping branch if you don’t want to expose it.

It’s not a hard rule though.

Dean