On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 1:46 PM, Darin Adler <da...@apple.com> wrote: > In my work on clipboard and pasteboard recently, I started with the Mac port. > The Qt and GTK ports have been easy to work with. Contributors to those ports > have helped me get the details right, and the code for those ports is > relatively self explanatory. The Windows port has been pretty easy, too. The > most difficult port for me has been EFL, since there is code peppered with > “notImplemented()” and so not testable. See, for example, PasteboardEfl.cpp. > This has made me uncertain about what to do for EFL and has made that port > one of the most difficult to deal with. > > What is the NIX port approach for pasteboard?
Pasteboard still on the roadmap (so it still not implemented yet), as pasteboard depends on the underlying platform the Nix implementation will just delegate the implementation to the application, so the work will be just to define an API to put on Source/Platform/nix/public and use them, besides write some mock for WTR, API tests and backends on some of our examples to prove and test the API usage. The easiest way to imagine what it would be is to take PasteboardQt.cpp, take away all uses of QClipboard and replace by some Nix::Platform API calls, so an application using Nix can implement the Pasteboard related stuff on Nix::Platform API and use QClipboard, GtkClipboard, or whatever it wants in the implementation. The "move all specific platform stuff implementation out of Nix shared library" makes the creation of simple apps hard because you get almost nothing out of box from Nix, but for this you already have other ports like Qt, GTK or EFL, however the idea is to have these backends implementation easy to just "copy and paste" from our examples to any project if the technology used fits, otherwise the Nix user need to write their own backend, but without worry about the whole WebKit tree. The work on this isn't done yet, but we have a goal and are walking towards it. > -- Darin > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org > https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev
