[webkit-dev] EFL port?

[ryuan Choi]

gyuyoung,

If you want, I can share https://github.com/ewebkit organization just for
better repository name.
There is also some script to make archive smaller.(but not maintained)


2017-02-16 0:18 GMT+09:00 Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri <barbieri at profusion.mobi>
:

> On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 12:48 PM, Konstantin Tokarev <annulen at yandex.ru>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > 15.02.2017, 17:18, "Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri" <barbieri at profusion.mobi>:
> >> On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 3:19 AM, Gyuyoung Kim <gyuyoung.kim at webkit.org>
> wrote:
> >>>  Hi,
> >>>
> >>>  If there is no other active maintainer for EFL port, unfortunately I
> have to
> >>>  agree to drop EFL port in mainline
> >>>  because EFL port should not be an obstacle. I will maintain WebKitEFL
> like
> >>>  the QT port in
> >>>  https://github.com/Gyuyoung/ewebkit and http://www.ewebkit.org.
> >>
> >> Okay, we can continue based on that.
> >>
> >> Just a small observation for your fork is to avoid releases to remove
> >> non-EFL port files like was done for 1.18, instead keep just our
> >> patchset on top and if you want to produce smaller archives just use
> >> git-archive ignore files (which can be in the git repo)... likely good
> >> to produce smaller downloads without layouttests and the likes.
> >
> > There is small but very useful script, Tools/gtk/make-dist.py. It allows
> to remove
> > unwanted files by using patterns, listed in manifests file (like
> Tools/gtk/manifest.txt.in)
> >
> > For Qt port I use this script both to make release tarballs and for
> snapshots repo [1].
> > This allows me to have full-fledged main repo with all tests and
> sources, and users
> > can clone small snapshots repo to get latest updates.
> >
> > [1] https://github.com/annulen/qtwebkit-snapshots
>
> well, cpack could do that kind of stuff, no? I recall the first port
> of cmake used that.
>
> I'm not sure why Gyuyoung did that approach, likely to get the
> tarballs-from-git-tags feature of github in a lightweight mode... then
> using git-archive features may do (it's kinda of simple to blacklist
> tests stuff and slim the tarball to 50mb or so)
>
>
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