This makes me very, very, very happy. :-) On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 9:23 PM, Dimitri Glazkov <[email protected]>wrote:
> Dear WebKiteurs, > > In our persisting quest to be more like a common WebKit port, we have > added Chromium build files to the tree this afternoon. These files are > WebCore/WebCore.gypi and JavaScriptCore/JavaScriptCore.gypi and they > are the GYP include files. As you may know, we use GYP > (http://code.google.com/p/gyp) for generating MSVC, XCode, Scons, and > even Make projects for Chromium. > > We are rather fond of GYP. Perhaps it is because it allows us to > maintain one set of project files for all three Chromium platforms; > > or maybe because it lets us to do things like WebCore.gypi, where we > can just mindlessly add all project files to the list and then use > various neat GYP filtering facilities to narrow them down to sets that > are relevant for specific builds; > > or maybe because it easifies creating cross-platform and > cross-build-system targets, actions, and rules; > > or maybe because we just love saying "Gyp!" > > I don't truthfully know. > > What I do know is that starting now, we'd love for you to remember > WebCore.gypi and JavaScriptCore.gypi when you are adding or removing > files from WebCore or JavaScriptCore. Thanks to the power of GYP, you > don't have worry whether this file will be used by Chromium: the rule > is that if there's a project file change, it applies to the *.gypi > files. The format is very simple and intuitive, a simple Python/JSONey > list+dict. > > Thank you for your attention, men and women of WebKit. > > :DG< > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev >
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