[chromium-dev] Re: Is it possible to create branches?

2009-06-17 Thread Evan Martin
As the team's git fanatic I feel it's my duty to tell you that git would help with this, but I agree with the commenters who say that your commits must be reviewed. The way I use it is a single git branch manages the period between start typing and think this is ready for review commit, while a

[chromium-dev] Re: How do you generate the VS project files from GYP without gclient?

2009-06-17 Thread Evan Martin
See the hooks section at the bottom of src/DEPS to see what that runhooks command does. On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 9:17 PM, Daniel Cowxdaniel.c...@gmail.com wrote: I know that you typically generate the project files via gclient runhooks --force, but I'm curious to know how to generate the

[chromium-dev] git.chromium.org hiccup, fixed now

2009-06-17 Thread Evan Martin
I'm not sure why, but the git.chromium.org repo was getting some checksum failures. It stopped updating around 6pm PDT. I rewound it a bit and restarted its mirroring, and it seems to be ok now, but you'll find the hashes have changed from around r18522. I think if you do an ordinary git merge

[chromium-dev] Re: skia backend support

2009-06-17 Thread Dean McNamee
Skia is already enabled in Chrome. We are not using the GL backend (it's not really finished). Thanks -- dean On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 1:43 PM, mailandroid wrote: I was looking at the support of skia backend for rendering (OpenGL/ OpenVG). How and where can we enable these backend in skia for

[chromium-dev] Re: Is it possible to create branches?

2009-06-17 Thread Mohamed Mansour
I learned git 3 days ago and I actually love it. It is very easy to create branches and for your big feature you are trying to implement, it is better to organize it into different milestones. Because in git/chromium world, every branch can have at most one CL (Change List, Review). So if you

[chromium-dev] Re: Is it possible to create branches?

2009-06-17 Thread Scott Hess
Against that, I sometimes use git to manage breaking reviews up. I'm always a bit unhappy to get a review which includes one bit of complex stuff that needs a bunch of back-and-forth, and another few bits of uncontentious stuff which is easy to +1. I'd rather see those separately, so that the

[chromium-dev] Re: git.chromium.org hiccup, fixed now

2009-06-17 Thread Evan Martin
To answer some questions I got off-list, it looks like this wasn't quite sufficient. git-svn still caches the old hashes and will be confused. It's safe* to rm -rf .git/svn/ and then try something like git svn find-rev r18522 just to verify it rebuilds its index. To completely clobber a

[chromium-dev] Re: Developing Chrome using tip-of-tree WebKit

2009-06-17 Thread Marc-Antoine Ruel
If you blow up svn.bat and python.bat in your depot tools, it will create 'svn' and 'python' scripts so cygwin will pick them up earlier (according you ran gclient recently). But personally, I stay in shape, eat healthy, use svn in cmd and git in cygwin. M-A On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 1:04 PM,

[chromium-dev] Re: v8 support in other browsers

2009-06-17 Thread Marc-Antoine Ruel
Given that you'd still need to use the COM-based Scripting Engine API (like IActiveScriptParse), I'm not sure how much you'd gain. But for running with cscript.exe, the difference would be appreciable, depending on how much DOM access you are doing. Reference:

[chromium-dev] Re: Is it possible to create branches?

2009-06-17 Thread Mark Larson (Google)
#1, make sure you have a bug open and a design document (exampleshttp://dev.chromium.org/developers/design-documents). Nothing's worse than going off on a long-lived feature expedition and then returning to trunk to find out people don't want the feature or want some other design. #2, work on

[chromium-dev] What's the TabRestoreUITest bug 1215881?

2009-06-17 Thread pi
tab_restore_uitest.cc: TEST_F(TabRestoreUITest, RestoreToDifferentWindow) { // This test is disabled on win2k. See bug 1215881. I cant find anything about bug 1215881 on http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/list, where to find it? Thanks.

[chromium-dev] Re: What's the TabRestoreUITest bug 1215881?

2009-06-17 Thread Dan Kegel
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 12:04 PM, pizhu.she...@gmail.com wrote: tab_restore_uitest.cc: TEST_F(TabRestoreUITest, RestoreToDifferentWindow) {  // This test is disabled on win2k. See bug 1215881. I cant find anything about  bug 1215881 on http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/list, where

[chromium-dev] Techcrunch What is a browser

2009-06-17 Thread Mike Belshe
This video is great. http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/17/yeah-what-is-a-browser-anyway/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ Chromium Developers mailing list: chromium-dev@googlegroups.com View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe:

[chromium-dev] Re: Techcrunch What is a browser

2009-06-17 Thread Ian Fette
It made me cry :( it's like jay-walking, but more personal. 2009/6/17 Mike Belshe mbel...@google.com This video is great. http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/17/yeah-what-is-a-browser-anyway/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ Chromium Developers mailing list:

[chromium-dev] Re: What's the TabRestoreUITest bug 1215881?

2009-06-17 Thread pi
That comment was removed 4 weeks ago in revision 16206. In the latest revision 18442, there are comments such as Bug 1230446, Bug 1204135. Is there any means to view these internal bug reports? Huan Ren wrote: Are you looking at the latest version of file tab_restore_uitest.cc? That comment

[chromium-dev] Re: does chromium care about appcache manifests?

2009-06-17 Thread Michael Nordman
Chromium has no behavior whatsoever yet... the feature is utterly unimplemented thus far... but it will have identical behavior to safari, iphone, andriod by virtue of the same code base performing those behaviors... thats the plan at least, and I'm working on the code now. Gears (i'm partly

[chromium-dev] Re: What's the TabRestoreUITest bug 1215881?

2009-06-17 Thread Dan Kegel
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 1:07 PM, pizhu.she...@gmail.com wrote: In the latest revision 18442,  there are comments such as Bug 1230446, Bug 1204135. Is there any means to view these internal bug reports? Not directly. What are you trying to do?

[chromium-dev] Re: What's the TabRestoreUITest bug 1215881?

2009-06-17 Thread pi
I'm trying to find out if it's possible to patch chrome to run on my old windows 2000 machine. When I debugging chrome 2.0.172.28, the Browser::CreateTabContentsForURL sometimes will raise exception. According to those comments in the source files, the TabUI indeed has some incompatibility on

[chromium-dev] Help with linux build error

2009-06-17 Thread Mark Larson (Google)
This is happening on a new Google Chrome Linux builder on the 'experimental' waterfall: http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/waterfall.fyi/waterfall?branch=builder=Google+Chrome+XPbuilder=Google+Chrome+Linuxreload=60 The linux compile fails here: Linking

[chromium-dev] Re: Help with linux build error

2009-06-17 Thread Adam Langley
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Mark Larson (Google)m...@chromium.org wrote: This is happening on a new Google Chrome Linux builder on the 'experimental' waterfall: http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/waterfall.fyi/waterfall?branch=builder=Google+Chrome+XPbuilder=Google+Chrome+Linuxreload=60

[chromium-dev] Re: Help with linux build error

2009-06-17 Thread Adam Langley
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Adam Langleya...@chromium.org wrote: On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Mark Larson (Google)m...@chromium.org wrote: This is happening on a new Google Chrome Linux builder on the 'experimental' waterfall: 

[chromium-dev] Re: Help with linux build error

2009-06-17 Thread Michael Moss
BTW, the mac script has the same thing (I added the -nt on Mark's suggestion), but maybe on mac it behaves differently so it's OK. Do we have a mac builder that's running dump_app_syms? Michael On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Adam Langleya...@chromium.org wrote: On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 2:41

[chromium-dev] Re: Help with linux build error

2009-06-17 Thread Mark Larson (Google)
Thanks, for the fix Adam. On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 15:04, Michael Moss mm...@chromium.org wrote: BTW, the mac script has the same thing (I added the -nt on Mark's suggestion), but maybe on mac it behaves differently so it's OK. Do we have a mac builder that's running dump_app_syms? I'd guess

[chromium-dev] Developing Chromium Mac? Try using it as your primary browser!

2009-06-17 Thread Mark Mentovai
Sometimes, it's hard to work on a product and actually use it at the same time. The rapid stop/start cycles aren't exactly conducive to keeping long-lived activities like your e-mail open. I work on Chromium, but I surf in Camino, or Safari, or Firefox. Does that sound familiar? I've worked

[chromium-dev] Re: Developing Chromium Mac? Try using it as your primary browser!

2009-06-17 Thread Peter Kasting
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Mark Mentovai m...@chromium.org wrote: Here's what I'm doing: I'm starting my long-lived Chrome (in my case, an official Google Chrome dev-channel build - ideally it shouldn't be the executable/bundle you're actively working on) with an alternate profile by

[chromium-dev] Re: Help with linux build error

2009-06-17 Thread Michael Moss
On closer inspection, it looks like it's a bash vs. dash issue. Our Linux official builder (gHardy) is using bash (probably the Mac is too), so the original syntax works. This experimental bot (regular Hardy) is using dash, so '-nt' fails when the file doesn't exist. Adam's fix should make both

[chromium-dev] Re: What's the TabRestoreUITest bug 1215881?

2009-06-17 Thread Nicolas Sylvain
I filed this bug with this comment:-- TabRestoreUITest.RestoreToDifferentWindow fails on win2k debug. I disabled it. This is not reproducible outside the buildbot environment. The problem seems to be that chrome cannot access a font. I was not able to determine what the font was. --- Later on I

[chromium-dev] Re: Changing the language of the spellchecker?

2009-06-17 Thread Evan Martin
Just a guess, but perhaps when you change languages a new Spellchecker object with the new language is constructed. I would expect the language-picking options haven't yet been implemented. You can also switch languages via the right-click menu on a text area, but that may also be

[chromium-dev] Re: Changing the language of the spellchecker?

2009-06-17 Thread Jeremy Moskovich
The canonical example you should be following here is WebKit on OSX. Grepping the sourcecode for NSSpellChecker shows usage in WebKit/mac/WebCoreSupport/WebEditorClient.mm and WebKit/mac/WebView/WebHTMLView.mm WebKit/mac/WebCoreSupport/WebEditorClient.mm:638,664 : NSRange range = [[NSSpellChecker

[chromium-dev] Re: Changing the language of the spellchecker?

2009-06-17 Thread sidchat
Yes, Evan is right. So, when you change a spellcheck language in the Options menu (languages_page_view.cc), it changes a pref member (prefs::kSpellCheckDictionary) value. This change is caught by the Profile (ProfileImpl::Observe in profile.cc), which (re)initializes the spellchecker with the new

[chromium-dev] New group for extension developers: chromium-extensions

2009-06-17 Thread Nick Baum
Hi all, As we're seeing an increasing number of people developing extensions (awesome!), we're creating a new and shiny discussion group for extension developers. If you're interested in developing extensions, we invite you to join us at:

[chromium-dev] IMPORTANT: repackage your extensions

2009-06-17 Thread Nick Baum
Hi all, **We're excited to see many people are experimenting with the upcoming extension features of Chrome in the dev channel. We're getting a lot of great feedback and are working hard to bring extensions to the stable channel as quickly as possible. As part of the latest dev channel release,

[chromium-dev] Re: Changing the language of the spellchecker?

2009-06-17 Thread Paul Wicks
Oh, ok, so when the language is changed, a new spellchecker object is created. That's what I thought might be happening. Thanks, -Paul Wicks On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 5:14 PM, sidchat sidc...@chromium.org wrote: Yes, Evan is right. So, when you change a spellcheck language in the Options menu

[chromium-dev] [chromium-dev]RE: why some chrome's tests fail?

2009-06-17 Thread David Jones
hi,Evan You can comment it out and just run gclient sync again. Not sure why you'd want to pass the --revision flag. I just wanna use one fixed revision, don't wanna update it everyday. Take that into consideration, that's easy to fix problems. Some data used by tests is not in the public

[chromium-dev] why some chrome's tests fail?

2009-06-17 Thread David Jones
hi, pawel. It is a bit worrying to me to read most of the tests fail. Do you encounter more failures? Yes, about 40% of my chrome's tests(I mean the .exe of tests) fail. And my revision is r17306. I am wondering why, -_-! --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ Chromium Developers

[chromium-dev] why some chrome's tests fail?

2009-06-17 Thread David Jones
I get a new question here: I've checked most of chrome's tests, and haven't find a RUN_ALL_TEST() which I think is necessary for GTest. simply, the printing_unittests project. why? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ Chromium Developers mailing list:

[chromium-dev] changing chrome_exe to chrome, converting chrome.exe to gyp

2009-06-17 Thread Steven Knight
Heads up, again, dept.: In the next in an ongoing series of attempts to convert chrome.exe to gyp, I'm going to (try to) land two changes now that you should be aware of: 1) convert the 'app' target in the chrome.gyp file to being named 'chrome'.2) actually convert the 'chrome_exe' project to