On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Maciej Stachowiak <m...@apple.com> wrote:
> On Dec 22, 2010, at 12:06 PM, Adam Barth wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Mark Rowe <mr...@apple.com> wrote:
>>> On 2010-12-22, at 10:34, Adam Barth wrote:
>>>> As an aside, would creating the Sources directory make it easier to
>>>> move WTF out of JavaScriptCore?
>>>
>>> I don't think that the location of the source on disk is a big factor in
>>> WTF's presence in JavaScriptCore.
>>
>> Oh, I thought the main involved in creating a new top-level source
>> directory was the main thing causing WTF to live inside
>> JavaScriptCore.  I know we've talked about moving it out of
>> JavaScriptCore for a while now.  Is that just a matter of someone
>> (e.g., me) doing the work or are there other limiting factors?
>
> If we switch to a top-level Sources directory, and on the Apple-internal side 
> switch to submitting WebKit to the OS build using this single top-level 
> sources directory, then it's easy to make new top-level directories without 
> disrupting anything.
>
> If we don't do the above, we'd have to set things up so we can submit WTF 
> separately to the build to cope, and we'd need to make it build a static 
> library and install private headers.
>
> So I think it is easier to make this change if we do the Sources/ change 
> first.

Now that we've moved all the source code into Source, I'd like to try
moving WTF out of JavaScriptCore.  Is there anything on the
Apple-internal side that needs to happen first?

Adam
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