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| 3 | = Successful Port How To = |
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| 5 | This page describes how to establish and maintain a port that lives in the [http://webkit.org/building/checkout.html main Subversion repository] of the WebKit project, as well as the benefits to doing so. |
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| 7 | Obviously you are free to create your own external repository, but if it's publicly available, please consider creating a wiki page for it under the "WebKit Ports" section of the [wiki:"WikiStart" start page]. |
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| 9 | == What is a Port? == |
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| 11 | A port of WebKit is a unique combination of platform technologies that run the WebKit engine. |
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| 13 | The most common difference between ports is the operating system that they run on (e.g., Apple's Mac OS X and Windows ports), but in other cases two ports may run on the same operating system but use different graphics (or other) platform technologies (e.g., the Qt and GTK+ ports on Linux). |
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| 15 | == TBD == |
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| 17 | NOTE: This document is a work-in-progress. Add more information as needed! |
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