On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 9:33 AM, Maciej Stachowiak <m...@apple.com> wrote: > > 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. >
Can that be changed? It would seem like a really unfortunate barrier to conversion. Alternatively, I suppose, we could just check in the derived files for some ports; it wouldn't be any worse than what we have now. -- Dirk _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
