How does chromium project maintains updates to third party sources?

[Ashish Soni]

Hi,

I am new to chromium project as a developer.. ive been referred here through this..

As chromium also uses a lot of third party sources,i would like to know how does the team here approaches when an individual library gets updated..

are the individual sources for third party libs checked in the chromium git repo placed with their own full SCM metadata(which could be different) so that a sync on chromium repo also updates those individual third party sources using their SCMs?

or are these updates are handled seperatly?

I need to decide which approach works the best in the opensource community as i need to change the current approach in one of our project which also involves dependencies in opensource 3 party repositories.

Thanks.

[Scott Graham]

See gclient and the DEPS file in the root of Chromium src.

http://dev.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/depottools

Android's repo might also be suitable.

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[Joao da Silva]

For my personal projects I've used git submodules, which is a part of git. It requires all 3rd party projects to be available in git repos too though. http://git.chromium.org/gitweb/ has a bunch of useful repos.

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