| mini_chromium |
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| This is mini_chromium, a small collection of useful low-level (“base”) |
| routines from the Chromium open-source project at |
| http://www.chromium.org/ . Chromium is large, sprawling, full of |
| dependencies, and a web browser. mini_chromium is small, self-contained, |
| and a library. mini_chromium is especially useful as a dependency of |
| other code that wishes to use Chromium’s base routines. By using |
| mini_chromium, other projects’ code can function in a standalone |
| environment outside of Chromium without having to treat all of Chromium |
| as a dependency. When building as part of Chromium, those projects’ code |
| can use Chromium’s own (non-mini_chromium) base implementation. |
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| Code provided in mini_chromium provides the same interface as the |
| equivalent code in Chromium. |
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| While it’s a goal of mini_chromium to maintain interface compatibility |
| with Chromium’s base library for the interfaces it does implement, |
| there’s no requirement that it use the same implementations as |
| Chromium’s base library. Many of the implementations used in |
| mini_chromium are identical to Chromium’s, but many others have been |
| modified to eliminate dependencies that are not desired in |
| mini_chromium, and a few are completely distinct from Chromium’s |
| altogether. Additionally, when mini_chromium provides an interface in |
| the form of a file or class present in Chromium, it’s not bound to |
| provide all functions, methods, or types that the Chromium equivalent |
| does. The differences noted above notwithstanding, the interfaces |
| exposed by mini_chromium’s base are and must remain a strict subset of |
| Chromium’s. |
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| Mark Mentovai |
| mark@chromium.org |
