[webkit-dev] CMake for WebKitGTK+

Benjamin Poulain benjamin at webkit.org
Tue Mar 25 13:12:29 PDT 2014


On 3/25/14, 10:52 AM, Martin Robinson wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 7:30 PM, Martin Robinson <mrobinson at webkit.org> wrote:
>> For a time, I kindly request that authors writing GTK+-specific
>> patches consider both the autotools and CMake GTK+ builds in their
>> patches. Hopefully within the next couple months, we can announce the
>> complete removal of the autotools build. I'd like to apologize ahead
>> of time for the inconvenience, as we iron out the final bugs. With
>> luck, the future will be much simpler and smoother for everyone.
>
> After internal discussions, we decided to accelerate the removal of
> the autotools build. I have just removed it [1]. WebKit now has three
> build systems, which means we have shed five build systems in a little
> over a year.
>
> 1. http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/166239

That is awesome!

Benjamin


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