It's been brought to my attention that this change might cause merge pain
for folks trying to pull their changes into the M4 branch.
I can wait to do this until a later date, or I suppose bring the change over
to M4?

Anybody feel super strongly?

-BradN

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Bradley Nelson <bradnel...@google.com>wrote:

> That might be worth considering.
> The reason they're gypi's instead of regular gyp files is because xcode
> presents only whole gyp's to the developer.
> Putting them in gypi's was a compromise which keep the final xcodeproj in
> one piece.
> If we move the gypi's to subdirectories, paths in them will still be
> relative to src/chrome, which might be confusing.
>
> I would prefer if gypi's didn't have this behavior, and plan to fix it:
> http://code.google.com/p/gyp/issues/detail?id=116
>
> In the meantime, does moving them still make sense? Or shall I wait under
> after?
>
> -BradN
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 9:34 PM, Darin Fisher <da...@chromium.org> wrote:
>
>> Sounds like a good change, but did you consider putting these gypi files
>> in the subdirectories?  chrome/renderer/renderer.gypi, etc. seems like it
>> would be nice.
>>
>> -Darin
>>
>>
>>  On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 7:02 PM, Bradley Nelson 
>> <bradnel...@google.com>wrote:
>>
>>>  Hello All,
>>>
>>> I've just landed a change which splits src/chrome/chrome.gyp in to
>>> several pieces:
>>> chrome.gyp
>>> chrome_browser.gypi (browser)
>>> chrome_common.gypi (common)
>>> chrome_debugger.gypi (debugger)
>>> chrome_plugin.gypi (plugin)
>>> chrome_renderer.gypi (renderer)
>>> chrome_tests.gypi (almost all tests)
>>>
>>> You can treat these additional gypi's as if they were a part of
>>> chrome.gyp, everything is still relative to src/chrome.
>>>
>>> I'm not wedded to this division, but I've tried to carve off large enough
>>> chunks to reduce the contention on chrome.gyp.
>>> Because these are all gypi includes, nothing should change in the layout
>>> of the project files.
>>>
>>> -BradN
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