Specifically, there were reasons why GYP was created instead of just using CMake. Mark Mentovai should comment.
-Ben On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Jeremy Orlow<jor...@chromium.org> wrote: > People are talking about GYP on the webkit-dev mailing list. It would be > nice if we could convince the rest of WebKit to use GYP since it seems we're > pretty committed at this point. Unfortunately I don't think there are any > GYP experts on that list. > > At the moment, it'd be nice to know why we created GYP as opposed to using > something else like cmake. > > J > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Brent Fulgham <bfulg...@gmail.com> > Date: Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 9:28 AM > Subject: Re: [webkit-dev] Please welcome GYP to the our dysfunctional build > family > To: Jeremy Orlow <jor...@chromium.org> > Cc: Adam Treat <tr...@kde.org>, Mark Mentovai <m...@chromium.org>, > "webkit-...@lists.webkit.org" <webkit-...@lists.webkit.org> > > > Hi, > I asked some similar questions on IRC. > >> On Friday 10 July 2009 12:23:50 am Dimitri Glazkov wrote: >> > As you may know, we use GYP >> > (http://code.google.com/p/gyp) for >> >> generating MSVC, XCode, Scons, and even Make projects for Chromium. > >> On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 5:38 AM, Adam Treat <tr...@kde.org> wrote: >> >> Gyp sounds remarkably similar to CMake to me. > > On Jul 12, 2009, at 7:42 AM, Jeremy Orlow <jor...@chromium.org> wrote: > > From a quick glance at cmake's website, it seems that it's a build system > and not a project file generator. I think it was pretty important to us to > generate project files so that you can use the full power of each platform's > IDE and toolchain. > > You might want to take a closer look! ;) > CMake generates the desired build environment. So, on Windows it generates > visual studio projects, on Mac OS it generates Xcode projects, and on Linux > it generates Makefiles. > You can override this behavior to get some other target. > > It can also drive the entire build, but that's not how a lot of people use > it. > So Cmake seems equivalent to GYP. GYP probably has unique features that make > it more desireable than Cmake for one reason or another (perhaps it's easier > to add new platform support or something), but at the moment those benefits > are not obvious to me. > I'm afraid that as far as I can tell, GYP seems like a case of NIH syndrome. > -Brent > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Developers mailing list: chromium-dev@googlegroups.com View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
