Re: [webkit-dev] Is the wxWidgets port maintained?

2013-02-13 Thread Simon Hausmann
On Tuesday, February 12, 2013 03:07:33 AM Dirk Pranke wrote: On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 7:44 PM, Benjamin Poulain benja...@webkit.org wrote: I am sorry, I should have given more context. There is visibly a growing discontent in the community about the cost imposed from small ports. Just

Re: [webkit-dev] Is the wxWidgets port maintained?

2013-02-12 Thread Dirk Pranke
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 7:44 PM, Benjamin Poulain benja...@webkit.org wrote: I am sorry, I should have given more context. There is visibly a growing discontent in the community about the cost imposed from small ports. Just two weeks ago, there were 2 threads discussing the cost of

Re: [webkit-dev] Is the wxWidgets port maintained?

2013-02-12 Thread Zoltan Herczeg
My point is that I think that lots of ports are part of what makes WebKit the goodness it is. Maybe I'm alone here, or at best part of a minority, but I wanted us to not lose sight of this idea. I totally agree. But I also agree with those, who thinks the different ports should not overburden

Re: [webkit-dev] Is the wxWidgets port maintained?

2013-02-12 Thread Kevin Ollivier
On Feb 11, 2013, at 11:44 PM, Eric Seidel wrote: This entire email thread makes me sad. I'm sad because we did this to ourselves (our porting systems/policies are lacking), we did this very abruptly (the last port we kicked out of webkit.org took a year?), and we don't have any clear

Re: [webkit-dev] Is the wxWidgets port maintained?

2013-02-12 Thread Brent Fulgham
Hi, On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 11:44 PM, Eric Seidel e...@webkit.org wrote: This entire email thread makes me sad. I'm sad because we did this to ourselves (our porting systems/policies are lacking), we did this very abruptly (the last port we kicked out of webkit.org took a year?), and we

Re: [webkit-dev] Is the wxWidgets port maintained?

2013-02-12 Thread Ryosuke Niwa
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 9:29 AM, Kevin Ollivier kev...@theolliviers.comwrote: On Feb 11, 2013, at 11:44 PM, Eric Seidel wrote: I think if we as a community are actively interested in maintaining as many ports as we have (and welcoming new ones) we need to come up with better ways to do

Re: [webkit-dev] Is the wxWidgets port maintained?

2013-02-11 Thread Kevin Ollivier
Hi Benjamin, On Feb 10, 2013, at 7:23 PM, Benjamin Poulain wrote: Hi again, While looking into DRT changes, I notice there is zero activity on the wxWidgets implementation. Looking at WebCore/WebKit, excluding general changes, the last commit for wxWidgets is 6 months old:

Re: [webkit-dev] Is the wxWidgets port maintained?

2013-02-11 Thread Benjamin Poulain
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 11:27 AM, Kevin Ollivier kev...@theolliviers.comwrote: I actually have recently been working on a patch to get trunk building again, though. The path of least resistance for me would simply be to ask people to ignore the wx port in their changes, but leave it in the

Re: [webkit-dev] Is the wxWidgets port maintained?

2013-02-11 Thread Martin Robinson
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 11:27 AM, Kevin Ollivier kev...@theolliviers.com wrote: The project is not dead per-se, but it's true that it's not very active these days. Recently, I haven't had a lot of time to devote to the port. The other big factor has been that I've been the only active

Re: [webkit-dev] Is the wxWidgets port maintained?

2013-02-11 Thread Kevin Ollivier
On Feb 11, 2013, at 12:27 PM, Benjamin Poulain wrote: On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 11:27 AM, Kevin Ollivier kev...@theolliviers.com wrote: I actually have recently been working on a patch to get trunk building again, though. The path of least resistance for me would simply be to ask people to

Re: [webkit-dev] Is the wxWidgets port maintained?

2013-02-11 Thread Kevin Ollivier
Hi Martin, On Feb 11, 2013, at 12:47 PM, Martin Robinson wrote: On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 11:27 AM, Kevin Ollivier kev...@theolliviers.com wrote: The project is not dead per-se, but it's true that it's not very active these days. Recently, I haven't had a lot of time to devote to the port.

Re: [webkit-dev] Is the wxWidgets port maintained?

2013-02-11 Thread Ryosuke Niwa
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 1:34 PM, Kevin Ollivier kev...@theolliviers.comwrote: On Feb 11, 2013, at 12:27 PM, Benjamin Poulain wrote: On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 11:27 AM, Kevin Ollivier kev...@theolliviers.comwrote: I actually have recently been working on a patch to get trunk building again,

Re: [webkit-dev] Is the wxWidgets port maintained?

2013-02-11 Thread Ryosuke Niwa
I'll add that now that https://github.com/WebKit/webkit uses the same hashing as git.webkit.org, it'll be trivial for folks wanting to have their own ports to fork on github and maintain svn history. Maybe we should even encourage that for new ports: initially forking WebKit on github to create

Re: [webkit-dev] Is the wxWidgets port maintained?

2013-02-11 Thread Martin Robinson
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 1:41 PM, Kevin Ollivier kev...@theolliviers.com wrote: Actually, it will, if anything, increase the workload. Because I use waf, I am able to use Python to auto-generate the list of sources to build. In other words, I tell it to build all sources in a defined list of

Re: [webkit-dev] Is the wxWidgets port maintained?

2013-02-11 Thread Brent Fulgham
Hi Everyone, On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 1:51 PM, Ryosuke Niwa rn...@webkit.org wrote: Asking people to ignore wx is basically the same as having the code outside the tree. Having the code outside the tree would make this change effective instead of having one more rule to the project. My big

Re: [webkit-dev] Is the wxWidgets port maintained?

2013-02-11 Thread Maciej Stachowiak
On Feb 11, 2013, at 1:34 PM, Kevin Ollivier kev...@theolliviers.com wrote: On Feb 11, 2013, at 12:27 PM, Benjamin Poulain wrote: On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 11:27 AM, Kevin Ollivier kev...@theolliviers.com wrote: I actually have recently been working on a patch to get trunk building

Re: [webkit-dev] Is the wxWidgets port maintained?

2013-02-11 Thread Ryosuke Niwa
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 2:13 PM, Brent Fulgham bfulg...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 1:51 PM, Ryosuke Niwa rn...@webkit.org wrote: Asking people to ignore wx is basically the same as having the code outside the tree. Having the code outside the tree would make this change

Re: [webkit-dev] Is the wxWidgets port maintained?

2013-02-11 Thread Kevin Ollivier
On Feb 11, 2013, at 2:13 PM, Brent Fulgham wrote: Hi Everyone, On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 1:51 PM, Ryosuke Niwa rn...@webkit.org wrote: Asking people to ignore wx is basically the same as having the code outside the tree. Having the code outside the tree would make this change effective

Re: [webkit-dev] Is the wxWidgets port maintained?

2013-02-11 Thread Brent Fulgham
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Ryosuke Niwa rn...@webkit.org wrote: Meanwhile, are there anything we can do as the WebKit community to help maintaing a one-man port like Wx in the future? e.g. rebumping build systems, etc... I think the recent discussions about standardizing on something

Re: [webkit-dev] Is the wxWidgets port maintained?

2013-02-11 Thread Dirk Pranke
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 1:41 PM, Kevin Ollivier kev...@theolliviers.com wrote: Hi Martin, On Feb 11, 2013, at 12:47 PM, Martin Robinson wrote: On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 11:27 AM, Kevin Ollivier kev...@theolliviers.com wrote: The project is not dead per-se, but it's true that it's not very

Re: [webkit-dev] Is the wxWidgets port maintained?

2013-02-11 Thread Kevin Ollivier
On Feb 11, 2013, at 2:01 PM, Martin Robinson wrote: On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 1:41 PM, Kevin Ollivier kev...@theolliviers.com wrote: Actually, it will, if anything, increase the workload. Because I use waf, I am able to use Python to auto-generate the list of sources to build. In other

Re: [webkit-dev] Is the wxWidgets port maintained?

2013-02-11 Thread Dirk Pranke
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Kevin Ollivier kev...@theolliviers.com wrote: On Feb 11, 2013, at 2:01 PM, Martin Robinson wrote: On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 1:41 PM, Kevin Ollivier kev...@theolliviers.com wrote: Actually, it will, if anything, increase the workload. Because I use waf, I am

Re: [webkit-dev] Is the wxWidgets port maintained?

2013-02-11 Thread Ryosuke Niwa
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Kevin Ollivier kev...@theolliviers.comwrote: On Feb 11, 2013, at 2:01 PM, Martin Robinson wrote: On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 1:41 PM, Kevin Ollivier kev...@theolliviers.com wrote: Actually, it will, if anything, increase the workload. Because I use waf, I

Re: [webkit-dev] Is the wxWidgets port maintained?

2013-02-11 Thread Kevin Ollivier
On Feb 11, 2013, at 3:33 PM, Dirk Pranke wrote: On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Kevin Ollivier kev...@theolliviers.com wrote: On Feb 11, 2013, at 2:01 PM, Martin Robinson wrote: On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 1:41 PM, Kevin Ollivier kev...@theolliviers.com wrote: Actually, it will, if

Re: [webkit-dev] Is the wxWidgets port maintained?

2013-02-11 Thread Kevin Ollivier
On Feb 11, 2013, at 3:37 PM, Ryosuke Niwa wrote: On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Kevin Ollivier kev...@theolliviers.com wrote: On Feb 11, 2013, at 2:01 PM, Martin Robinson wrote: On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 1:41 PM, Kevin Ollivier kev...@theolliviers.com wrote: Actually, it will,

Re: [webkit-dev] Is the wxWidgets port maintained?

2013-02-11 Thread Dirk Pranke
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 4:30 PM, Kevin Ollivier kev...@theolliviers.com wrote: On Feb 11, 2013, at 3:33 PM, Dirk Pranke wrote: On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Kevin Ollivier kev...@theolliviers.com wrote: On Feb 11, 2013, at 2:01 PM, Martin Robinson wrote: On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 1:41

Re: [webkit-dev] Is the wxWidgets port maintained?

2013-02-11 Thread Ryosuke Niwa
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 4:53 PM, Kevin Ollivier kev...@theolliviers.comwrote: I know you're speaking more in general here, but just to be clear, over the past 6 months, the data hit that WebKit engineers have taken on account of the wx port is close to 0 bytes. The only time svn up or git

Re: [webkit-dev] Is the wxWidgets port maintained?

2013-02-11 Thread Kevin Ollivier
On Feb 11, 2013, at 5:03 PM, Dirk Pranke wrote: On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 4:30 PM, Kevin Ollivier kev...@theolliviers.com wrote: On Feb 11, 2013, at 3:33 PM, Dirk Pranke wrote: On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Kevin Ollivier kev...@theolliviers.com wrote: On Feb 11, 2013, at 2:01 PM,

Re: [webkit-dev] Is the wxWidgets port maintained?

2013-02-11 Thread Kevin Ollivier
On Feb 11, 2013, at 5:20 PM, Benjamin Poulain wrote: On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 5:11 PM, Ryosuke Niwa rn...@webkit.org wrote: On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 4:53 PM, Kevin Ollivier kev...@theolliviers.com wrote: I know you're speaking more in general here, but just to be clear, over the past 6

Re: [webkit-dev] Is the wxWidgets port maintained?

2013-02-11 Thread Benjamin Poulain
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 6:17 PM, Kevin Ollivier kev...@theolliviers.comwrote: To be honest, I think I know more about the wx port, and would probably be better able to cleanly remove it from the tree, than you would. As I've said from the start, I'll remove it if that's what people want, but I

Re: [webkit-dev] Is the wxWidgets port maintained?

2013-02-11 Thread Eric Seidel
This entire email thread makes me sad. I'm sad because we did this to ourselves (our porting systems/policies are lacking), we did this very abruptly (the last port we kicked out of webkit.org took a year?), and we don't have any clear policy for this sort of thing (adding/removing ports in