On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 1:30 PM, Mark Rowe <mr...@apple.com> wrote: > On 2011-02-09, at 13:06, Adam Barth wrote: >> 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? > > Maciej's response above mentions that we need to make some internal process > changes before it's easy to add new top-level projects without disrupting > things. Unless there's some urgent reason to move WTF I'd prefer that you > hold off on doing this.
Would it make sense to set a target date in the future for making these internal changes? I'm certainly not in a rush, but I'd also like to make progress on this at some point. Adam _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
