On Mar 1, 2011, at 5:18 AM, Adam Roben wrote: > Reducing the number of build systems is a face-meltingly worthy goal. I have > one small question: > > On Mar 1, 2011, at 4:21 AM, Adam Barth wrote: > >> 3) Remove the xcodeproj files from svn.webkit.org and integrate the >> generation of xcodeproj files with the WebKit build / update scripts. >> At this point, contributors will notice that something has changed >> because there'll be one less build system to worry about keeping up to >> date! > > Won't contributors who don't use update-webkit/build-webkit also notice > something has changed, because they will no longer have any project files? (I > ask this as a contributor who doesn't use update-webkit/build-webkit.)
Another consequence of step 3 is it would break submissions to Apple's central build system, since those pull from the repository with vanilla SVN and do not run special scripts afterwards. Regards, Maciej _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
