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

[yael aharon]

I agree with Slava that if we go ahead and move the code, it should be
everything, not just the API.
Yael

On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Vyacheslav Ostapenko <ostap73 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi All,
>
>   Why only API part? I think everything that is not used by apple should
> go outside of Source/WebKit2.
>   We should create something like Source/WebKit2Ports, shadow the
> structure of WebKit2 there and move all the code that is not compiled by
> Apple, like APIs, CoordinatedGraphics, shared memory and process mangement
> and etc.
>   Of course it will not solve the problem of Apple breaking Qt, EFL and
> GTK ports, but at least it will allow easier fixes of port specific issues.
>
> Slava
>
> On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 11:48 AM, 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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