On Feb 11, 2013, at 1:34 PM, Kevin Ollivier <kev...@theolliviers.com> wrote:
> > On Feb 11, 2013, at 12:27 PM, Benjamin Poulain wrote: > >> On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 11:27 AM, Kevin Ollivier <kev...@theolliviers.com> >> wrote: >> I actually have recently been working on a patch to get trunk building >> again, though. The path of least resistance for me would simply be to ask >> people to ignore the wx port in their changes, but leave it in the tree. git >> is much better about these things, but I still remember what a pain it was >> to maintain the entire port in an svn branch back in the day, and I'd rather >> not re-try that experiment unless I really have to. If people feel strongly >> that I should approach things another way, though, I'm certainly open to >> ideas. >> >> Asking people to ignore wx is basically the same as having the code outside >> the tree. Having the code outside the tree would make this change effective >> instead of having one more rule to the project. >> >> Looking at the history of wx's WebKit and platform code, the vast majority >> of changes are from Apple/Google. I think it is unfair to have many people >> maintain your code while you develop the project outside of the tree. >> >> Given the data, I am in favor of removing the wx port from webkit.org and >> have it be a separate tree on Gitorious or GitHub. >> What are the main pain points of developing outside webkit.org for you? Is >> there anything that can be done in the structure to simplify such changes? > > My big concern is not losing history while moving the wx files out of the > tree and into a git branch, and also at the same time not losing the ability > to merge the rest of trunk safely. Though I haven't investigated the process > yet, so I don't know how easy or hard it may be. If you create a github repository by forking from the canonical webkit github repository, you'll have history for all the wx files and a good way to merge from trunk at times that you find convenient. I think that's the motivation behind the suggestion. - Maciej
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