On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 6:04 PM, Jeremy Orlow <[email protected]> wrote: > How hard will the transition be? If it's going to take a lot of time and > cause a lot of churn anyway, would this be a good time to try and make that > port use GYP or CMake? (I assume the answer is probably no, but figured it > was worth asking anyway. :-)
Eric and I are experimenting with GYP and CMake, but we don't have much to report at this time. Stay tuned? Adam > On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Adam Roben <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Jan 31, 2011, at 3:41 PM, Peter Kasting wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Adam Roben <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Please let me (and the list) know if this change will cause you trouble, >>> and if there's something we can do to make the transition easier. >> >> This may make life hard on Chromium as right now we don't support building >> with VS2010. We are working on adding support (I think >> http://crbug.com/25628 may be the closest bug). I'm not sure what time >> frame that will happen in. >> >> I don't think we have any plans to drop VS2005 support. If WebKit drops >> support it may force us to do so as well. >> In both cases above we're not so much impacted by vcproj/sln changes >> (since we use GYP to construct our vcproj and sln files) as we are by code >> changes, e.g. code that requires VS2010 to build correctly. >> >> I doubt that maintaining compatibility with VS2005's compiler would be an >> issue. As long as there's an EWS and/or buildbot to catch problems, we >> should be able to work around any compiler differences. I didn't mean to >> imply that we'd intentionally break compilation with VS2005's compiler; all >> I meant was that using VS2005 to build Apple's port would no longer be >> supported. >> -Adam >> >> _______________________________________________ >> webkit-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev >> > > > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev > > _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
