[webkit-dev] Re: Moving away from qmake

2007-11-16 Thread Alp Toker
Alp Toker wrote: you have to build the whole of Qt just to get qmake, which takes over an hour and almost a gigabyte of disk space for me. That's at least 5 times as long as it takes to build the whole of JavaScriptCore, WebCore and WebKit. Just to set the record straight, it turned out my bad

Re: [webkit-dev] Re: Moving away from qmake

2007-11-16 Thread Steve Atkins
On Nov 16, 2007, at 12:58 PM, Alp Toker wrote: Alp Toker wrote: you have to build the whole of Qt just to get qmake, which takes over an hour and almost a gigabyte of disk space for me. That's at least 5 times as long as it takes to build the whole of JavaScriptCore, WebCore and WebKit.

[webkit-dev] Re: Moving away from qmake

2007-11-16 Thread Alp Toker
Steve Atkins wrote: IIRC, the two issues were that qmake is time-consuming to build and that the existing .pro files were not handling dependencies correctly. Is the latter the only issue now, or were there other problems? This probably reduces the urgency for change. I think we need to wait

[webkit-dev] Re: Moving away from qmake

2007-11-12 Thread Alp Toker
Mike Emmel wrote: Here is my autoconf build files They are for my current projects but I think they could readily be cleaned up to b used with the standard build. I found that having a single Makefile did not incur any performance problems. Mike, just had a look over this and it's looking

[webkit-dev] Re: Moving away from qmake

2007-11-12 Thread Mike Emmel
Yes I rewrote the Curl code to use the new callback api's so you can use select in the main thread. Also the Pleyo people have done some work I've not fully integrated so their work is worth looking at. I ran into some issues and dropped back for the time being to a full load on each call. Its a

[webkit-dev] Re: Moving away from qmake (aka. modularising JavaScriptCore)

2007-11-12 Thread Alp Toker
Mike Emmel wrote: I refactored all the Unicode handling to run behind a abstract interface. So no direct ICU calls. Its a lot of little patches all over the place and a thankless job. Its a lot of work so email me if your interested. I was also looking at repacling icu with glib/pango. Its