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| # mini_chromium |
| |
| This is mini_chromium, a small collection of useful low-level (“base”) routines |
| from the [Chromium open-source project](https://dev.chromium.org/Home). Chromium |
| is large, sprawling, full of dependencies, and a web browser. mini_chromium is |
| small, self-contained, and a library. mini_chromium is especially useful as a |
| dependency of other code that wishes to use Chromium’s base routines. By using |
| mini_chromium, other projects’ code can function in a standalone environment |
| outside of Chromium without having to treat all of Chromium as a dependency. |
| When building as part of Chromium, those projects’ code can use Chromium’s own |
| (non-mini_chromium) base implementation. |
| |
| Code provided in mini_chromium provides the same interface as the equivalent |
| code in Chromium. |
| |
| While it’s a goal of mini_chromium to maintain interface compatibility with |
| Chromium’s base library for the interfaces it does implement, there’s no |
| requirement that it use the same implementations as Chromium’s base library. |
| Many of the implementations used in mini_chromium are identical to Chromium’s, |
| but many others have been modified to eliminate dependencies that are not |
| desired in mini_chromium, and a few are completely distinct from Chromium’s |
| altogether. Additionally, when mini_chromium provides an interface in the form |
| of a file or class present in Chromium, it’s not bound to provide all functions, |
| methods, or types that the Chromium equivalent does. The differences noted above |
| notwithstanding, the interfaces exposed by mini_chromium’s base are and must |
| remain a strict subset of Chromium’s. |
| |
| [Crashpad](https://crashpad.chromium.org/) is the chief consumer of |
| mini_chromium. |
| |
| Mark Mentovai<br/> |
| mark@chromium.org |
