[openbeos] Re: Introducing an Jam question to HAIKU Build system
- From: "Ryan Leavengood" <leavengood@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 16:15:10 -0500
On 12/27/06, Axel Dörfler <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
If that should be a permanent storage, we already have vendor branches
to put the verbatim packages under. If WebKit is done, I would guess
we'd be very interested to make it part of Haiku, anyway, so a 3rdparty
/ wouldn't be used for that either.
Well I can't predict the future of course, but I think the best bet
for a future Haiku/WebKit relationship would be to keep a separate
WebKit (it is quite a lot of source, almost as much as Haiku I
suspect) which would be (hopefully) easy to download and build to
produce libWebKit.so. Then on the Haiku side we would have maybe
BHTMLView which uses libWebKit.so and then our browser source which
again would use libWebKit.so.
From what I've seen the WebKit community seems friendly towards
porting and making WebKit more portable in its core, so it is
conceivable that after the needed work we could just download the
WebKit source from their repository and quickly build a Haiku/BeOS
version. This way we can be sure to make use of improvements to the
Mac and Linux versions of WebKit without complicated merging and
patching of a separate branch in our source tree.
Regards,
Ryan
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