Regarding chromium version in Android AOSP

Murphy Ma

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Jul 6, 2015, 2:48:57 AM7/6/15

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Hey guys,

I'm a newbie in chromium and here I have an enquiry regarding chromium version in Android AOSP.

From Android phone's Settings ---> App ---> Android System Webview I can see webview version is 39(I'm using AOSP-5.1.0_r1, LMY47D)

However, from frameworks/webview/chromium/version.mk I see below confusing comment from which I doubt whether this is the real one:

# TODO(torne): get this from Chromium automatically.

version_milestone := 39

So my question is, what is the real version of Chromium in this AOSP-5.1.0_r1? Where can I find the real version from somewhere within /external/chromium_org where the real chromium codes lie?

I know git tag might tell this (of course :p) but unfortunately I don't have them from my AOSP source code in hand...

Cheers,

Murphy

PhistucK

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Jul 6, 2015, 2:54:30 AM7/6/15

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I believe it automatically updates, so the version is the latest version.

☆PhistucK

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Torne (Richard Coles)

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Jul 6, 2015, 5:40:26 AM7/6/15

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On Mon, 6 Jul 2015 at 07:49 Murphy Ma <fei8...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hey guys,

I'm a newbie in chromium and here I have an enquiry regarding chromium version in Android AOSP.

From Android phone's Settings ---> App ---> Android System Webview I can see webview version is 39(I'm using AOSP-5.1.0_r1, LMY47D)

However, from frameworks/webview/chromium/version.mk I see below confusing comment from which I doubt whether this is the real one:

# TODO(torne): get this from Chromium automatically.
version_milestone := 39

So my question is, what is the real version of Chromium in this AOSP-5.1.0_r1? Where can I find the real version from somewhere within /external/chromium_org where the real chromium codes lie?

The real version is "39", ish. It's a fork of the M39 release branch of chromium, with numerous changes applied on top in the Android sources, which is why we don't claim a particular chromium version number. You cannot build an M39 webview from the chromium sources; we weren't done upstreaming all the webview code until the M42 release.

I know git tag might tell this (of course :p) but unfortunately I don't have them from my AOSP source code in hand...

Cheers,
Murphy

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Murphy Ma

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Jul 8, 2015, 1:23:55 AM7/8/15

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Thanks Richard. Now it is clear for me, and I will starting building webview from M42 on.

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