On Sep 25, 2008, at 11:29 AM, Avi Drissman wrote:
In WebKit, PLATFORM(MAC) means a lot of things, and one thing in
particular it means is to use NSURLResponse. I filed https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20890
with a patch, and it kicked up a storm.
It seemed like there was fundamental disagreement about what the
meaning of PLATFORM(MAC) really was. Did it mean "use Mac APIs"?
Perhaps it's "Apple's Mac port".
I'll take my position, that PLATFORM(MAC) means that WebKit should
use core Mac APIs. Not ones that are replaceable (like NSURL, since
we're replacing that with our own loaders), but the core ones like
Cocoa UI APIs, etc. There's a fine line there; after all, anything's
replaceable with enough effort. That's fine; I'm happy with leaving
most things as PLATFORM(MAC) and then, if need be, split them off
into USE(SOMEFEATURE).
My own opinion (and what I would say is maybe a rough consensus on th
list) is that PLATFORM(MAC) means "use Cocoa UI stuff" and the
networking code under PLATFORM(MAC) should be changed to
USE(NSURLCONNECTION), to parallel USE(CFNETWORK), USE(CURL),
USE(SOUP), etc. One can certainly imagine a port that uses Cocoa UI
but not the NSURLConnection networking code. I could even imagine the
version of WebKit that ships with Mac OS X using a different network
library someday, perhaps CFNetwork instead of NSURLConnection.
Regards,
Maciej
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