[webkit-dev] WebCore/platform standalone library

[Carlos Garcia Campos]

El mar, 10-01-2017 a las 21:24 -0800, Myles C. Maxfield escribió:
> After 18 months of no progress, Don Olmstead and I are getting the
> band back together!

Great news. 

> We’ve uploaded a patch
> to https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143358 which incorporates
> feedback from many different stakeholders (and as such, the direction
> is a little different than where I was going with this in the
> beginning).
> 
> First of all, this isn’t a new project; instead, it’s a new target
> inside the WebCore project. The target creates a static library which
> gets linked into WebCore, which means that the enforcement mechanism
> can’t be done by the linker. Instead, the layering will be enforced
> by a Python script, triggered as an extra build step, which checks
> the symbol names inside the .a file as well as #include directives in
> source code.

So, will it be possible to link to PAL but not the rest of WebCore?

> We opted for WebCore to include files using “#include <PAL/Foo.h>”
> instead of just including Foo.h. Similarly, we are putting symbols
> inside the PAL namespace, which is a child of the WebCore namespace.
> Therefore, inside WebCore, you use PAL things by specifying
> “PAL::Foo”.

And WebCore::PAL::Foo when used outside WebCore namespace, right?

> The first thing to move into PAL is the “crypto” subfolder, which is
> a good candidate because it’s small, simple, yet also has platform-
> dependent implementations.
> 
> We would love your feedback on this approach to help make the dream a
> reality!

I'm not sure I agree with the approach because I don't know the reasons
 to make it a target inside WebCore, could you elaborate more on that,
please?

> Thanks,
> Myles and Don
> 
> > On Mar 22, 2015, at 4:40 PM, Gavin Barraclough <barraclough at apple.c
> > om> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Mar 22, 2015, at 4:35 AM, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs at apple.com>
> > > wrote:
> > > 
> > > Web Abstraction Toolbox (it’s hard to tell the difference between
> > > wat and WTF sometimes…)
> > 
> > +1
> > 
> > 
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