On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 6:09 PM, Darin Fisher <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Marshall Greenblatt <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Darin Fisher <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> In this case, because the method will be part of the WebKit API, we'll
>>> have natural reluctance to remove the method.
>>> In general, however, I don't know that a comment like that is enough.  It
>>> doesn't give me a way to eventually delete the method if it should become
>>> unnecessary to you.  I think the only solution is for you to add a consumer
>>> to the Chromium code base, and then setup a buildbot that builds
>>> and preferably exercises that consumer.  Then, if someone sees the function,
>>> they will be able to know who cares about it.
>>>
>>> Without something like that, you can be pretty much guaranteed to repeat
>>> this experience in the future.
>>>
>>
>> What kind of consumer do you have in mind?  Are you thinking improvements
>> and additional test cases for test_shell, or something completely
>> different?  Personally, I'd love to see the chromium embedded framework
>> become part of the Chromium code base (with a full set of related test
>> cases, builders, etc) but that might not be a popular option ;-).
>>
>
>
> I'm not sure what would be best.  I was just describing the problem.  It
> might help to setup a buildbot for chromiumembedded on the fyi page:
> http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/waterfall.fyi/waterfall
>

That sounds like a good first step.  Who should I talk to about getting this
set up?


> <http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/waterfall.fyi/waterfall>
>
> It looks like I can search at
> http://code.google.com/p/chromiumembedded/source/checkout to see how you
> are using various glue / webkit api interfaces.  I will try to do that in
> the future, but I can't promise not to break you again.
>

Thank you for keeping us in mind.  I'll definitely let you know if/when
things break again. :-)


>
> -Darin
>

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