Comment Comment by marshallofsound Disclaimer: Electron devSo few quick things, the projects that are copied are done so to guarantee deterministic builds in an isolated build environment (no dependencies on third party systems).The API you say they don't provide is literally the API that Electron uses. --> https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/HEAD/conten...And as for the build process, eh, it's kinda slow but it's hardly arcane. On linux you can run like 4 commands and it'll build Chromeium. parent marshallofsound 7 years ago
So few quick things, the projects that are copied are done so to guarantee deterministic builds in an isolated build environment (no dependencies on third party systems).
The API you say they don't provide is literally the API that Electron uses. --> https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/HEAD/conten...
And as for the build process, eh, it's kinda slow but it's hardly arcane. On linux you can run like 4 commands and it'll build Chromeium.