| Summary: | Web Inspector: combine-resources.pl should support multiple transformations in one invocation | ||
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| Product: | WebKit | Reporter: | BJ Burg <bburg> |
| Component: | Web Inspector | Assignee: | Nobody <webkit-unassigned> |
| Status: | NEW --- | ||
| Severity: | Normal | CC: | inspector-bugzilla-changes, webkit-bug-importer |
| Priority: | P2 | Keywords: | InRadar |
| Version: | WebKit Nightly Build | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | All | ||
In the interest of moving more of the WebInspectorUI build into Derived Sources-style phases, we need to have a clearer relationship between inputs and outputs. Currently, combine-resources.pl is called multiple times, using the same files (Main.html, etc) as both inputs and outputs. This is fundamentally incompatible with dependency-based build systems, and makes it difficult to debug problems along the way. I think it would be better to make combine-resources.pl a bit less flexible and instead codify the conventions we have been using. In particular, * hard-code a list of targets to be concatenated or stripped, loosely based on folders. This would be the set {Inspector, Debug, Workers, CodeMirror, Esprima, ESLint} * each target has a hardcoded file pattern (such as 'External/Esprima') * output filenames are determined based on the target name plus a suffix * take arguments such as --combine=Inspector --combine=CodeMirror --strip=Debug --suffix=Combined This will reduce the number of invocations to one per main resource in copy-user-interface-resources.pl and make it possible to move this step into Derived Sources easily. There are still plenty of post-processing steps such as running minifiers and remove-console-asserts.pl. We can combine/streamline that stuff in a separate bug.