I hate to be a pest about this, but I've asked about this more than
once because I think it's really really important.

How can I help make it happen?

On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 5:49 AM, Marc-Antoine Ruel <[email protected]> wrote:
> Adding a few potentially interested people.
>
> On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 6:45 AM, Rozenkraft <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> As a few of you know, I've been trying to build a stable version of
>> chromium for a month now. The problem is the DEPS file of the 195
>> branch is outdated so it has wrong dependencies. I could update the
>> dependencies until chromium builds, but I would like to use the exact
>> same version of every dependency than Google, since I chose chromium
>> for my project (an internet kiosk prototype) because it leaks less
>> memory and it's more secure, which are very important things for
>> public computers with long uptimes. So having stable dependencies it's
>> important for us.
>>
>> Anyway, I opened this issue:
>> http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=23038
>> and maruel tells me that somebody is working on the alternative
>> solution proposed in one of the
>> comments, so thanks.
>>
>> But given that the you are producing those automated DEPS for the 4.x
>> branches but not for the 3.x stable branch, I'm starting to think that
>> this isn't gonna happen in the current release cycle and I'll have to
>> wait for the 4.x stable release, which again, is understandable cause
>> I'm sure there are pretty solid technical reasons.
>>
>> So I'm wondering, whether in the meantime you could offer some kind of
>> temporal fix for those of us in my same situation. For example,
>> committing to the branch the DEPS used by google as "DEPS.internal".
>> That way I can take a look, ignore the google specific stuff and make
>> my own DEPS. I don't think it would take you more than 20 seconds per
>> stable release (if I'm right in my assumptions about the nature of the
>> problem) and it would be very appreciated.
>>
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