[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 162055] Improve binding generator organization

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Fri Sep 16 09:22:49 PDT 2016


https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162055

--- Comment #4 from Chris Dumez <cdumez at apple.com> ---
(In reply to comment #3)
> If we want to do this, I recommend switching piece at a time, by handling
> one particular output file, getting it to work incrementally for all input
> cases, then expanding out from there.
> 
> One big problem is that as far as I know, all of our IDL parsing is in Perl,
> and the rest of code generation is predicated on being able to parse the IDL
> files. Is there some Python library we can use to parse IDL? Or is there a
> workable intermediate format we can use to shim IDLParser.pm to Python code
> generators?

Rewriting our bindings generator in Python would be huge effort and would probably not bring huge benefits. I would much rather we improve / clean our current generator (I do agree its needs clean up / refactoring).

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