+1 for removing ATL. I think it tends to obscure what's going on and we have developed many of our own wrappers for functionality that provides. My plan was to slowly remove it from ChromeViews over time. (We don't use it for nearly as much anymore). People are welcome to pitch in and help.
-Ben On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 5:54 PM, Erik Kay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It would be nice to remove ATL/WTL dependencies from Chromium so that > people can build it with Visual C++ Express. > > While rewriting our UI code is unlikely to happen overnight, I was > thinking that it should be possible to at least build test_shell > without ATL. Unfortunately, we have a handful of dependencies in base > and in our webkit port. Some of these are trivial to fix, others not > so much. I filed a handful of bugs against the ones that I found, so > if you've got some downtime or are looking for a small focused bit of > work to bite off, take a look at one of these: > > base/wmi_util.cc - bug 5021 - lots of COM > webkit/tools/test_shell - bug 5022 - a few small issues > webkit/default_plugin - bug 5023 - UI for handling plugin installation > webkit/activex_shim - bug 5025 - more COM > tools/grit - string table .res files generated with ATL dependencies > > > Erik > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Chromium-dev" group. To post to this group, send email to chromium-dev@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
