FYI from the webkit mailing list. We'll probably want to prepare a similar CL for our binding generating code and whoever is doing the merges should look out for this change being landed.
J On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 10:46 PM, Darin Adler <[email protected]> wrote: > The IDL file format we use to generate our bindings has some things in > common with WebIDL and many differences. There are extended attributes we > use that exist in WebIDL but with a different name. > > As a first step in making our IDL syntax be as close to the WebIDL standard > as possible, I’d like to move our extended attributes so they go in the > appropriate place in the syntax. Ours currently come later in an attribute > definition; WebIDL puts them before the attribute definition. > > I have a patch to do this in this bug < > https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26398>. Currently the patch > contains the code changes to make the binding machinery parse the new > syntax, and a couple hand-converted files. > > I plan to write a script to convert all the IDL files to the new syntax. > Should be easy. > > Not sure about what impact this will have for V8. > > -- Darin > > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Developers mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
