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 >> >> > > >> > >> >> > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Developers mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
