[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 38470] Add empty folder to house URL parser

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38470





--- Comment #8 from Adam Barth <abarth at webkit.org>  2010-05-03 14:47:49 PST ---
(In reply to comment #7)
> If it's going to be in WebCore, why not put it in WebCore/platform?

You're suggesting WebCore/platform/url ?

Here's some more info from email:

On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Darin Adler <darin at apple.com> wrote:
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> On May 3, 2010, at 10:17 AM, Adam Barth wrote:
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> > How about JavaScriptCore/wtf/url ?
> >
> > I originally used the name "URLCore" to fit in with the rest of the top-level "Core" directories.  It seems a bit odd to have the code inside the JavaScriptCore folder, but that might make sense if/when wtf is moved into its own top-level directory.
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> Seems OK.
>
> I think the real choice isn’t WebCore vs. JavaScriptCore, but rather WebCore’s platform vs. WTF. Both of those are conceptually separate libraries although they live inside the WebCore and JavaScriptCore directory. At some point I’d like to make those link and compile separately to enforce correct layering, but there are costs associated so I am not in a rush to do that right away.
>
> For Chromium’s sake, I think WTF is right since they are basically treating URL as a low level thing, and probably don’t want to have the networking library depend on the WebCore platform layer.

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