[webkit-efl] Moving the EFL WebKit2 public APIs to outside WebKit2 directory

[Antonio Gomes]

I think it needs a webkit-dev discussion, since Qt and Gtk might get interested.

On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 12:48 PM, Thiago Marcos P. Santos
<tmpsantos at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Ewkitters,
>
> The recent changes on the reviewing policy for the code located inside
> Source/WebKit2 directory has been affecting the speed of how the EFL
> port moves forward. The additional burden for the WebKit2 Owners to
> review code from all the the ports has obviously its implications. We
> have red bots for days because of pending patches.
>
> We can minimize this overhead and let the WebKit2 Owners focus on
> reviewing the core components by moving the EFL WK2 public API and
> unit tests to outside the Source/WebKit2 directory. The best place I
> see would be Source/Platform/efl, which will be consistent with how
> the Chromium API files are placed inside the WebKit tree.
>
> This is the directory structure I'm proposing (using Chromium as role model):
>
> Source/WebKit2/UIProcess/API/efl/ (public headers) -> Source/Platform/efl/public
> Source/WebKit2/UIProcess/API/efl/ (the rest) -> Source/Platform/efl/src
>
> Note that we are initially moving _only_ the API and utests. Other
> things, which are probably 5% of what is left of EFL code, can be
> moved later if needed.
>
> Comments anyone? I'm volunteering myself for the task.
>
> Cheers,
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