This sounds good to me, although I'm not sure the files in platform/ need to move. I think the directory is fine under WebCore/ still.
dave On Oct 4, 2008, at 2:56 AM, Eric Seidel wrote: > +1 for making wtf and platform their own projects/targets. > > -eric > > On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 12:27 AM, Maciej Stachowiak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> >> On Oct 3, 2008, at 9:17 PM, David Hyatt wrote: >> >>> After working for a while on the WebCore/platform/ directory, it's >>> become clear that people don't really know what this directory is >>> supposed to contain (and by people I mean pretty much everybody, >>> both inside and outside Apple). The purpose of the platform/ >>> directory is to serve as a foundation library for WebCore. It >>> provides a widget toolkit, graphics primitives, basic data >>> structures and wrappers around low level OS services. It should not >>> depend on any other parts of WebCore, but can depend on >>> JavaScriptCore/wtf. >> >> I agree with Hyatt on this. Although in most respects we don't >> enforce >> strict modularity in WebCore, this is one case where it is important, >> and we have been lax in maintaining the layering of WebCore/platform. >> >>> I also think it would be worthwhile to discuss options for >>> preventing these layering violations from occurring going forward. >>> We need to make these violations impossible. I'd love to hear >>> suggestions on that front (separate library, hacked include paths, >>> etc.). Whatever we decide should be implementable by Mac, Win, Gtk, >>> Qt, wx and Chromium, since we don't want platform-specific code in >>> platform to violate layering either. >> >> I think we should pull WTF and Platform into separate top level >> modules. On Mac OS X they would build static libraries that get >> linked >> into JavaScriptCore and WebCore respectively. Other ports may want to >> do it slightly differnetly. >> >> We have a lot fewer layering problems with WebCore and WebKit in part >> because they are separate modules, and you have to go out of your way >> and make some Client interfaces to create unfortunate entanglements. >> >> Regards, >> Maciej >> >> _______________________________________________ >> webkit-dev mailing list >> webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org >> http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev >> _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev