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Comparing Chromium Development at Google and Igalia

49 points • by signa11 • today at 1:56 AM • 16 comments • view on HN

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rmunn • today at 4:47 AM

Also worth noting https://lwn.net/Articles/1097760/ - Gentoo has given up on building Chromium from source, because upstream "do not test their builds with any of their allegedly 'optional' features disabled" and "[i]n the case of Chromium, keeping all the toggle switches working (despite chronic neglect from upstream) is a monumental, nigh-insurmountable task." One maintainer said he could not possibly test all the combinations of USE flags in the Gentoo build, since his laptop took 15-16 hours to compile Chromium (I presume for just one build, which would have to be repeated 2^N times to test all possible flag combinations).

Much more in the LWN article, I'm not going to quote everything.

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throwaway2037 • today at 6:58 AM

Honestly, I wonder how much money she gave up? I would need to be "post-economic" before I could do something like that.

shevy-java • today at 6:58 AM

I am sorry but I don't really have any respect for developers who help empower the evil AdChromium empire. I understand that people invest their time in making money; I have no problem with that. But I am not going to read a chromium-promo - aka a Google-promo - at the end of the day. That company should have already been split up decades ago.