RE: Updated idlharness.js

Both points are interesting (contacting public-webapps & keeping a code in sync). Let’s address them separately.

 

(1) Report our work on WebIDL2.js to public-webapps

 

I’m not following that mailing list at the moment, but I’ll do so very soon (like: tonight). I’m OK to take on me to respond to Robin’s message to explain our work (even if we didn’t use the parser as of now because we focused our work on type conversion, we plan to do so very soon). 

 

Because we already reported two valid bugs for the WebIDL specification (NaN/infinity to “any” conversion & octet conversion), our work may be interesting for the webapps guys and their review of the version 2 of the spec.

 

(2) Keeping a draft in sync with generated code

 

This is a very interesting issue. Indeed, the generated stub will likely be filled in by the developer and as soon as the draft changes, a ‘merge’ strategy may be needed to keep the prolyfill up to date.

 

I propose for now that we encourage to use a text-difference-based merging tool (if developpers don’t touch the structure of the file too much, they should be able to spot the differences very quickly and merge efficiently the changes in their existing code). 

 

In the long run, we may even provide a ‘reverse’ parser that would copy implementation code from one version to the other and warn for the places that may need an update.

 

 

 

 

 

De : Brian Kardell
Envoyé : ‎24‎ ‎janvier‎ ‎2013 ‎18‎:‎10
À : Marcos Caceres
Cc : Clint Hill, François REMY, public-nextweb@w3.org
Objet : Re: Updated idlharness.js




On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 11:37 AM, Marcos Caceres <w3c@marcosc.com> wrote:


I think it would be good to announce and see if we can get some more people involved in our group. It might also serve as a barometer to check people's interest in what we are trying to achieve.

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Marcos Caceres







Does anyone else feel that it might be good to lay out a longer vision for this in terms of how we might provide an ability to keep a draft's WebIDL in sync from source or something?