Advice for forking Chromium?

[AlTech]

So I'm gonna be playing around with chromium and making my own fork of it.

 

Any advice or anything I should know?

 

Thanks .

 

Also, how can I update chromium version without redoing all my modifications?

[manikyath]

Start with spooning, it'll make chromium relaxed so you can start forking more easily. I do recommend against knifing.

/s

 

In all seriousness, go for it. I wouldnt say go trough *every* line of code, but at least dink around and see what certain functions do/are capable of.

 

Oh, anf if you have a tendency to screw up (admit it, we all make mistakes) make a VM for coding so when it hangs it doesnt hang your entire system.

[AlTech]

1 minute ago, manikyath said:

Start with spooning, it'll make chromium relaxed so you can start forking more easily. I do recommend against knifing.

/s

 

In all seriousness, go for it. I wouldnt say go trough *every* line of code, but at least dink around and see what certain functions do/are capable of.

 

Oh, anf if you have a tendency to screw up (admit it, we all make mistakes) make a VM for coding so when it hangs it doesnt hang your entire system.

I'm trying to fetch the code (I've already downloaded the debug tools).

 

I've installed gclient but now it tells me that I don't have python installed...........

 

I do, It's a path variable................

[manikyath]

1 minute ago, AluminiumTech said:

I'm trying to fetch the code (I've already downloaded the debug tools).

 

I've installed gclient but now it tells me that I don't have python installed...........

 

I do, It's a path variable................

Do you have the right python installed?

[AlTech]

Just now, manikyath said:

Do you have the right python installed?

I have 2.7.12. I'm sure this is the version required.

[manikyath]

Just now, AluminiumTech said:

I have 2.7.12. I'm sure this is the version required.

Wait.. No python 3? Thats shameful..

 

Maybe it's looking for python in the wrong location?

[LAwLz]

7 minutes ago, AluminiumTech said:

I'm trying to fetch the code (I've already downloaded the debug tools).

 

I've installed gclient but now it tells me that I don't have python installed...........

 

I do, It's a path variable................

Open CMD and run:

python -V

 

I would not be surprised if the path variable is messed up. I've had that issue several times.

[AlTech]

13 minutes ago, LAwLz said:

Open CMD and run:

python -V

 

I would not be surprised if the path variable is messed up. I've had that issue several times.

It returned "Python 2.7.6"

 

16 minutes ago, manikyath said:

Wait.. No python 3? Thats shameful..

 

Maybe it's looking for python in the wrong location?

Chromium only supports Python 2 AFAIK.

[LAwLz]

29 minutes ago, Nicholatian said:

> trying to fork Chromium

> can't even PATH properly

 

mate, you are playing with things that far surpass your current skill level

 

if I were you I'd try studying something smaller and less complicated than a complete web browser. That thing has V8 embedded into it, a huge and vastly complex UI... I don't even have the time to learn how to do anything useful with all of that.

To be fair, his path variable seems to be correct.

[LAwLz]

9 minutes ago, Nicholatian said:

Regardless, I can't imagine Chromium being very fun to "play" with in Visual Studio or whathaveyou. It feels like he gauges it to be a hand tool, but in reality it's a machine the size of a gymnasium.

Well yeah, Chromium is huge. Not something you should start with if you just want to mess around. Takes a bloody long time to compile as well.