You could answer a lot of these questions yourself, with a little bit of digging or a Google search. I'll try to give you a boost though.
2009/6/15 <[email protected]>: > I began to read chromium's source codes, and got caught in these trival > questions: > > 1. what's gfx? I always see that. gfx:: is a namespace where lots of our graphics related code lives. See base/gfx and app/gfx. > > 2. what's the usage of .gyp files? Something like cmake, a meta-language to declare our build configuration, and then generate Visual Studio, Scons, Makefiles, XCode projects. This happens transparently by "gclient", or manually by "gclient runhooks --force". http://code.google.com/p/gyp/ > > 3.Is gmock used to help automation test? What else does chrome use for > automation test? I'm curious about that. gmock was just recently introduced. I'm not sure if or where we are using it. > > 4.gcapi confused me, what is it? > > 5.mini_installer.exe and setup.exe? I can't execute them. What're they used > for? Search the lists for discussions on this. I don't know much about how our installer works, but these are part of it. > > 6.what is courgette? and used for? Helping to make the downloads of incremental updates smaller. http://neugierig.org/software/chromium/notes/2009/05/courgette.html > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Developers mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
