On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 4:56 PM, Maciej Stachowiak<m...@apple.com> wrote: > > One belated comment on this topic. It would be neat if some port agreed to > be the guinea pig to see if gyp could plausibly work for more than Google's > ports. The Wx port probably has the lowest resources of any complete port in > the tree, so they might not be the best choice of experimental subject, > particularly if for them the process required writing a new gyp back end and > if they are not yet entirely comfortable going the gyp route.
I would need to discuss it with my student, but what about the brand new Haiku port being the gyp guinea pig? For those who don't know, I am mentoring a student in the Google Summer of Code for the Haiku operating system (http://www.haiku-os.org) and we are working on a native Haiku web browser with WebKit as the rendering engine. I don't know if our port is any better of a choice than the Wx port, since the resources are also small (just two of us for now) and we aren't even in the WebKit tree yet, but I think we still might be a good choice because: 1) We obviously don't yet have a "production" browser using our port so breakage isn't an issue. Plus only my student (Maxime Simon) and I are working on it. 2) I have decent experience with build systems and think I could handle working with gyp and writing a new back end. 3) Haiku generally uses Jam for building and we would like our port to do the same. Rather than adding "Yet Another Build System" to WebKit, we could use gyp and write a Jam backend for it. This can therefore serve as a test of gyp for another platform as well as for another backend. I would rather not have to maintain a Jamfile for WebKit if I can avoid it, and I certainly don't want to burden the other WebKit developers with having to maintain it for what is now (and may forever be) a tiny port. Though we certainly hope Haiku's popularity increases in the future (it hasn't even had a first release anyhow, so there is plenty of room to grow.) Anyhow, I'd be interested in hearing what other people think. -- Regards, Ryan _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev