To complement the "search the source code" recommendation, use queries
like that:

http://google.com/codesearch?q=package:"src.chromium.org/svn/trunk"+mini_installer

M-A

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Sverrir Á. Berg<[email protected]> wrote:
>> 5.mini_installer.exe and setup.exe? I can't execute them. What're they
>> used for?
> Try reading the source code - it has actually a lot of useful comments.
>  Such as mini_installer.cc has comments on how mini_installer and setup
> relate.
> If you can't run them you might be hitting an issue some of us have had on
> Visual Studio 2008 - where the build process corrupts the manifest files -
> try searching the email archives for that.
> Good luck,
> Sverrir
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 6:16 AM, Dean McNamee <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> 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
>>
>> > >
>> >
>>
>>
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>
> >
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