On Apr 16, 2006, at 11:09 AM, Kevin Ollivier wrote:
Our current system for supporting ports in our directory tree have
been to put their necessary files under a /platform/port-name/
directory. I expect that should work for WxWidgets as well. If
it doesn't we can make alternative arrangements.
This is what I am going to do with the wx-specific sources. But,
and I know this is being a bit picky ;-), I hesitate to put the
project files there because platform != port in some cases. e.g.
since wx is cross-platform, it may be able to, or need to, use some
sources from platform/win, platform/linux, or platform/mac. So I
guess I see platform as a mixture of "port" specific and "os"
specific sources, and I think it could get confusing as to where to
put (or where to find) a port's project files.
The same is true for the existing "mac" "cairo" and "win"
directories. Mac & Win are OS's, in cairo's case it's a cross-
platform graphics library, we just only happen to use in on Windows
right now.
Well, in any case, for now I've set things up to put Bakefile-
generated projects in WebCore/ports/<PORT> directory. (Perhpas
'projects' would be a better term?) I've also made everything in
the Bakefiles relative to SRCDIR, too, so that if we move the
project files into another folder, the only change we need to make
to the Bakefiles is to make sure that SRCDIR points to the WebCore
folder. I should be able to create a patch in a day or two,
assuming anonsvn comes back up. :-) I'm going to give Mike a heads-
up first to see if what I've done works for him, or if I need to
change something first, but once that's done I'll submit it to
Bugzilla.
I think that the existing platform/port, bridge/port, etc.
directories would be preferred, but I think the first step is just to
start posting the patches, and then we can haggle about where to
apply them to later.
BTW, you might want to consider having a separate project file that
generates the cross-platform webcore sources as a static library
(say, a "WebCoreBase" project file), and then have the Win32, etc.
projects statically link in that library and only build the files
specific to their port/platform (and of course, depend on
WebCoreBase). Actually, I've pretty much already set up the
Bakefile projects this way, so that you can see what I mean when I
submit the patch. :-) This way there wouldn't be any redundancy
among projects in terms of maintaining the cross-platform sources,
and each port will only ever have to worry about updating/
maintaining its own specific files.
Thats a very interesting idea.
-eric
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