On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Ben Harper <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hmmm... yes I'm aware of the Cairo thing. I just gave up on trying to
> build Webkit
> on my Windows machine, because I can't stand spending days just to get
> something to compile, when someone else on my team is waiting for my
> proof of concept.


To be blunt, if you can't get WebKit/Win to compile in days, I'm not sure
you're prepared to author a PDF backend.  Getting WebKit for Windows to
compile is not difficult (I speak as someone who's done it over a dozen
times, on various different machines, and has run into all the line ending
mismatch/cygwin mismatch/svn mismatch/etc. problems you can have).

To the guys who ported Webkit to Skia, my question is this: Is porting
> Webkit to
> yet another backend 1 week, 1 month, 1 year?


Depends on the backend.  Nontrivial, not less than a month.

PK

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