[sldev] Webkit versus Second Life

[Alissa Sabre]

> They demonstrated that you can fetch and build
> Webkit using nothing but your mouse. They assume you have the
> developer tools and subversion installed. The rest is su-and-say
> enough that you can just copy and paste three lines from the browser.
> One to do the svn fetch, one to build, and one to launch the built
> app.

> We're pretty far away from that.

I have no experience fetching Webkit source, and I don't know how
complex building of Webkit is or what build system they are using.
So, I can't judge how great their demonstration is.

I know, however, something about the SL viewer building process.  Yes,
our building process is far from "just several mouse clicking."
However, even today, some automated process (such as develop.py) makes
some big changes to the viewer source or building process very
difficult.

Simple and automated build process is good, but I don't think it is
more important than an easy-to-understand building system.  More
custom automated build tools you supply, higher the barrier to make
some change to the building process be.

I hope LL *doesn't* develop 10k lines of cryptic python build
script to do a "just several mouse clicking" build process...

    Alissa Sabre

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