[webkit-dev] Reminder: include everything that you use in implementation files

[Peng (WebKit) Liu]

Hi Brian,

Any way/option to turn off the unified build completely or partially in a local build? That would be very helpful for a developer to locally verify that header files are included correctly in a patch. Thanks!

Best regards
Peng

> On Nov 6, 2020, at 11:21 AM, Brian Burg via webkit-dev <webkit-dev at lists.webkit.org> wrote:
> 
> Hello folks,
> 
> I'd like to remind everyone to please include what you use in .cpp,  .mm, and other files. When reviewing patches, please
> ensure that new mentions of classes, structs, etc. within an implementation file have a corresponding header include. 
> All of our headers have #pragma once, so there is no downside to being more explicit.
> 
> I've been noticing an uptick in the number of unified sources-related build failures. I can't remember the last nontrivial patch
> I wrote that did *not* include unrelated build fixes. Typically these failures aren't found until EWS results come back, reducing developer velocity.
> And obviosuly it's super annoying to encounter completely unrelated build failures that must be nonetheless addressed.
> 
> Let's all do our part so that hacking on WebKit remains delightful.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Brian Burg (he/they)
>  WebKit Developer Experience
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