Exciting times! Is there a Master bug that those of us interested in following along at home can CC ourselves on?
Looking forward to seeing a real Android port in WebKit! -eric On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Andrei Popescu <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello WebKit! > > We would like to give an update about WebKit on Android. A while ago, > we started the effort to upstream the Android port of WebKit. For a > variety of reasons, this work took longer than anticipated and was > never finished. We realize that the incomplete Android port that > exists today in WebKit ToT has caused quite a bit of confusion and > inconvenience to the project as a whole and we are very sorry for > that. > > Over time, the Android Browser has come to share more and more code > with Chrome (both WebKit and Chromium). This approach has a number of > advantages for the WebKit community: > > 1. Android WebKit no longer requires a separate build system because > we are able to reuse Chromium’s gyp system for building. > 2. Android no longer requires a separate set of WebCore clients, > platform abstractions, and embedder APIs because Android shares much > of this code with the Chromium port. > 3. The Android layout tests results more closely match chromium-linux > and more expected results can be shared. > > We plan to start by setting up a webkit.org build bot that will > compile Chromium’s DRT for Android using the Android NDK, SDK and > toolchain. We anticipate a reasonably small set of changes to the > Chromium port to achieve this. We’re fully committed to maintaining > this new flavor of the Chromium port of WebKit and having a build bot > up and running as soon as possible will make this an easier task. At > the same time, we will be removing the existing incomplete Android > port. This includes the Android-specific code in > WebCore/platform/android, as well as any code guarded by the > PLATFORM(ANDROID) macro. > > We’re looking forward to a much better collaboration with the WebKit > community and we’d be very grateful to receive any feedback on this > plan. > > Thanks, > Andrei, Steve, Ben > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev > _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
