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 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Developers mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
