On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Mark Rowe <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2011-03-23, at 12:17, Adam Barth wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 11:38 AM, Mark Rowe <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On 2011-03-23, at 03:33, Adam Barth wrote: >>>> On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 12:22 AM, Mark Rowe <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> On 2011-03-22, at 23:50, Adam Barth wrote: >>>>>> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 8:14 PM, Mark Rowe <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>> In any case, I'm glad we've found a technically feasible solution. >>>>> >>>>> We've had at least one technically feasible solution from day zip: check >>>>> in the generated project files. >>>> >>>> From my perspective, approach (2) is more desirable than checking in >>>> generated project files because approach (2) encapsulates >>>> Apple-internal build process to Apple folks, more specifically to the >>>> Apple folks who interact with the Apple-internal build system. >>>> Checking in generated project files, on the other hand, imposes a >>>> maintenance burden on all WebKit contributors. >>> >>> The maintenance burden you mention is minuscule in comparison to the >>> existing requirement of updating umpteen different build systems, including >>> the impossible-to-hand-edit Xcode project files. This is particularly true >>> when we're still going to be updating umpteen minus one build systems for >>> the foreseeable future. If the Xcode project files were the only remaining >>> project files then I'd certainly take this argument more seriously. >> >> Yes, unifying all our various build systems is a long journey and this >> is just the first step. > > I'm glad that we agree that checking in the generated project files would > create only a minuscule burden.
I'm afraid you've misunderstood me. I do not agree with that statement. Adam _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
