On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 6:31 PM, Darin Adler <da...@apple.com> wrote:
> There may be a misunderstand of what the “platform layer” is. > > We should not move all platform-specific files into the platform > directory! Please do not make the changes in bug 110330 until we have > discussed this. > > The idea is not that all platform-specific code is in the WebCore/platform > directory. Instead, the idea is that WebCore/platform contains code that > the rest of WebCore is built on top of that creates a platform independent > abstraction. > > To do this, we need to eliminate dependencies from the platform directory > to the rest of WebCore. > > At this time, we are far from that. Many dependencies on the DOM and other > such things have crept into the platform directory. > > The real point of having a separate library for the platform directory is > not to segregate all platform-specific code, but rather to have a coherent > platform independence library that we can rely on for most > platform-independence and minimize the need for platform-independent code. > > -- Darin Understood. Thanks for the explanation, much appreciated. Will held off the work for the GTK-specific files until appropriate. For the sake of clarity and if in anyone's interest, I'm linking two more bugs: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21354 - meta bug for platform layering violations https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75664 - meta bug for the platform layer migration Regards, -Z
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