[webkit-dev] EFL port?

[Gyuyoung Kim]

Hi Konstantin and Gustavo,

I'm gonna upload latest WebKit source code to the repo.
Let me use the methods you guys recommend(script or git command) in order
to make EFL tarball.

Gyuyoung.


On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 12:18 AM, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri <
barbieri at profusion.mobi> wrote:

> 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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