Summary: | [meta] Modularize WebKit | ||
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Product: | WebKit | Reporter: | Kentaro Hara <haraken> |
Component: | WebCore Misc. | Assignee: | Kentaro Hara <haraken> |
Status: | NEW --- | ||
Severity: | Normal | CC: | abarth, ap, darin, dennisn, donggwan.kim, gyuyoung.kim, mario, michelangelo, mihnea, syoichi, webmaster |
Priority: | P2 | ||
Version: | 528+ (Nightly build) | ||
Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
OS: | Unspecified | ||
Bug Depends on: | 82266, 82276, 72138, 76723, 78440, 78467, 78860, 79259, 79293, 79343, 79377, 79379, 79432, 79434, 79436, 79437, 79442, 79449, 79473, 79479, 79507, 79517, 79598, 79619, 79624, 79625, 79626, 79633, 79635, 79636, 79663, 79721, 79881, 80013, 80061, 80071, 80094, 80139, 80140, 80144, 80148, 80151, 80178, 80193, 80248, 80325, 80352, 80393, 82121, 90580, 90940, 91324 | ||
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Description
Kentaro Hara
2012-02-22 21:48:16 PST
If you would work on WebKit modularization, - please block this meta bug to track them - please add the bug # to the SpreadSheet (https://docs.google.com/a/chromium.org/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AppchfQ5mBrEdFlodHlLb0prdEd1ZEZyUHdCbEpoc2c#gid=0). Ask me if you need a write permission of the SpreadSheet. As pointed out in bug 79507, when we make supplemental DOMWindow*.idl, WorkerContext*.idl, Navigator*.idl etc, we should copy & paste the CopyRight of the original DOMWindow.idl, WorkerContext.idl, Navigator.idl etc. I updated and colored the SpreadSheet based on the webkit-dev@ discussion (http://markmail.org/message/kagvswmah67zmrry#query:+page:1+mid:h34vzbiu5suub3ld+state:results). SpreadSheet: https://docs.google.com/a/google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AppchfQ5mBrEdFlodHlLb0prdEd1ZEZyUHdCbEpoc2c#gid=0 This is sorely needed!! Especially with the javascript components. That seems to be what takes up the vast majority of compilation. It takes over a day to compile here, far more than any other package I've ever installed. This is the obvious common-sense thing to do, the linux / open-source thing to do, to separate the core components that rarely change, and other ones that often require updating, as separate packages. All the vulnerabilities seem to arise in the javascript code. We shouldn't be recompiling basic stable ossified stuff every month when a new major javascript vulnerability is found. Compiling them as separate packages/libraries will also encourage more people to hack and contribute to the code base. Currently it's much too daunting, in terms of memory and cpu and disk usage, for most people. Even source-based distros like Gentoo are pressured to create ugly binary packages to deal with this. As a tangent, why does the javascript stuff take so many hours/days to compile? It takes way longer than compiling the linux kernel and gcc and the whole gcc toolchain and a window manager combined! |