Shall we start using absl::StrFormat()?

[Dean Liao]

Recently I feel base::StringPrintf() too verbose to convert std::string to C string for every parameters. Then I found a good replacement:  absl::StrFormat() in https://cs.chromium.org/chromium/src/third_party/abseil-cpp/absl/strings/str_format.h. However, I didn't see it being used anywhere in Chromium repository.

Do we have any concern / restriction from using absl lib? If not, I would like to use absl::StrFormat() to replace base::StringPrintf().

[Hans Wennborg]

My understanding is that absl isn't used by Chromium, except that some
third-party libraries depend on it.

I don't remember where it was discussed, but that's what it says here:
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/third_party/+/master/abseil-cpp/README.chromium#11

[Peter Kasting]

On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 2:42 AM Hans Wennborg <ha...@chromium.org> wrote:

My understanding is that absl isn't used by Chromium, except that some
third-party libraries depend on it.

That's also my understanding.  There have been numerous discussions on cxx@ and elsewhere over the past year, since various bits of absl would be interesting (e.g. variant); the last word I heard was in April where dcheng@ was going to try to drive some kind of stakeholder agreement (or so I thought).  But barring changes, absl is banned AFAIK.

PK

[Mirko Bonadei]

As of today WebRTC is the only project that can use Abseil in Chromium because Abseil doesn't mark symbols as exported and this complicates the component build support (there is a small exception for openscreen since they need to use things without globals but aside from that visibility is locked down, see here).

I have been discussing with Abseil about this but lately I have been busy trying to finish the WebRTC component build support. On top of that there are other issues dcheng@ was working on (also gab@ has context on that). 

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