IIRC from the Mac porting effort (a year ago now), the JSC build
relies significantly on objective-C dom bindings which we neither want
to use nor are easy to get working in our build system. We jettisoned
them for a reason and my guess is that it would be a non-trivial
effort to re-instate them (if at all, things were pretty scary
before).
Not trying to shirk work or responsibility, just pointing out there be
dragons there and my +2 Sword of Build Wrangling is in the shop for
repair.
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Dimitri Glazkov<dglaz...@google.com> wrote:
>
> Team,
>
> Now that we're unforked, we want to concentrate on eliminating layout
> test failures. Through the magic of the WebKit merge, we've
> accumulated quite a few. Today, we expect around 400 failures, which
> is not a good number by any stretch.
>
> As one of the ways to help determine the source of the failures, I
> propose that we resurrect the JSC build (and builder), so that we can
> say with a fair degree of certainty if the cause is in the V8
> bindings.
>
> Those of you who were involved in maintaining a JSC build of Chromium
> before may experience painful flashbacks and shortness of breath. My
> hope is that this time around we should have easier time, since we're
> unforked and the Script* abstractions are pretty well-defined to keep
> most of the nasties at bay. Additionally, having gyp is certainly a
> super-great help.
>
> Based on the IM/hallway conversation, Dave Levin, Dmitry Titov, myself
> and possibly a few others might be interested in helping out with the
> project. We don't want this to be more than a 10% effort on our parts.
> Since we hope to have a JSC build bot and ideally a canary bot, we may
> need some help from the infrastructure gods.
>
> So, do you think that resurrecting the JSC build is a:
>
> a) terrible idea
> b) great idea
> c) whatcha talking bout, Willis?
>
> :DG<
>
> >
>
--
Mike Pinkerton
Mac Weenie
pinker...@google.com
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