I had a look at the code, and talked to one of the WebKit guys. It looks like it's about one or two months work for one or two people. We can use the existing qmake build environment (in the short term, at least), which removes the dependency on XCode.
The first step is to port JavaScriptCore, which has very few platform dependencies. Looking through the WebCore sources, it seems like we can re-use about 50% of the Mac stuff, and the rest won't be too hard to rewrite (lots of little classes). While porting, we can stub out a lot of things (like the network code), so getting something working a bit should be fairly easy. I didn't look at WebKit much, but even if we need to completely re- write it, it wouldn't be too much effort. David On 29 Jun 2007, at 07:21, Yen-Ju Chen wrote: > I just saw a news that Syllable port WebKit > and I often heard people say it should be easy to port WebKit to > GNUstep. > Does anyone really look at the code and evaluate how easy or difficult > to port it > instead of just hearsay ? > For example, does it require the latest NSURL stuff in OSX 10.4 > while GNUstep has a older verion ? > Does it requires a sophisticate text system which GNUstep may lack > or it is just a combination of NSCell and NSView ? > > Thanx > > Yen-Ju > > _______________________________________________ > Etoile-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-discuss _______________________________________________ Etoile-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-discuss
