I like the idea of fixing test_shell and not trying to convert
everything at first.

But don't work on 5025, I think it's wasted time. It's a non-essential plugin.

There's zero reference to WMIUtil in the code so to fix 5021, it's
probably faster to just delete the source file.

M-A


On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 9:04 PM, Ben Goodger (Google) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> BTW I changed all these bugs to "Type-Cleanup" which is a good way for
> people to find the set of work required to move towards this
> objective.
>
> -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
-~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---

Reply via email to