No. The bar is much higher for introducing a new port to WebKit.
Geoff > On May 11, 2017, at 7:54 PM, Daniel Ferreira (theiostream) <bnm...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hi there, > > My name is Daniel Ferreira and as a Google Summer of Code project I > decided to tackle the ten-year-long[1] effort of porting WebKit to > GNUstep one more time (and hopefully get somewhere this time). > > Since 2009, GNUstep has gained a lot of maturity in its graphics stack > and on its implementation of CoreFoundation, so now having a WebKit > port in it seems like a more plausible goal – as well as a fun > challenge. This is very important to GS since it still has no web > browser running on top of it. > > Also since 2009, it seems like WebKit has gained mature ports on GTK > and Qt, which has made the demand for a GNUstep port quite smaller for > the project. However, it does seem interesting to offer a > cross-platform port that adds portability to a lot of currently > Mac-specific code – a goal a GNUstep port would fulfill. > > In an ideal world, GNUstep would be mature enough for us to build the > Mac port on a Linux machine pointing to GNUstep libraries and all > would be well. Sadly, this is not the case and a GNUstep port on > WebKit would require some adjustments on WebKit (although GNUstep > certainly would receive many patches as well implementing stuff WebKit > would use). > > That being said, I decided to try compiling WTF as a first approach to > this undertaking, and I introduced a "PlatformGNUstep.cmake" file that > is mostly a copy of PlatformMac.cmake. It ends up defining > WTF_PLATFORM_MAC and WTF_PLATFORM_GNUSTEP as code macros, and whenever > there is some Mac-specific code that GNUstep can't tackle, we try a > cross-platform alternative. Otherwise, the behavior is just like that > of the Mac port. > > Through some adjustments to WebKit code (e.g. GNUstep does not support > XPC, QOS, Mach kernel memory operations, so in these cases we either > do nothing or use Linux-specific code as an implementation) and > GNUstep adjustments (regarding some missing CoreFoundation functions), > I managed to get WTF compiled and linked. I'm now moving on to > JavaScriptCore to be able to test everything (and very likely spend > quite some time figuring out the most diverse issues that will show > up). > > That being said, I will send a patch as soon as I get JSC in a > semi-decent state. However I wondered if this introduce new platform + > do the same thing as Mac port with some exceptions approach seems > reasonable to the project now that I have realized it is actually > feasible. > > Thanks, > -- Daniel. > > [1]: https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2009-October/010333.html > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org > https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev