On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 9:53 AM, Mark Rowe <mr...@apple.com> wrote: > > On 2013-01-31, at 00:48, Adam Barth <aba...@webkit.org> wrote: > > >>> I would consider changing or improving gyp's syntax to be on the table > >>> if it was needed to reach the goal. > >> > >> For what it’s worth, I also find the gyp syntax to be unpleasant. It > feels as though it was optimized for being processed by a machine rather > than for being written and maintained by humans. > > > > Unlike xcodeproj files. :) > > Don’t get me wrong, Xcode projects suck for hand-editing too. However, > they’re not intended to be edited by hand. Gyp files are, and so the > expected level of human readability is much higher. >
Many of us are actually editing the Xcode projects by hand, either because they don't have Xcode or don't know how to use it. (Yes, that includes coming up with a bunch of new UUIDs by hand) best -jochen
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