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Tangential, but I tried to build chromium the other day but stopped when it said it required access to Google cloud platform to actually build it. If something
by forgotusername6 3y ago
Tangential, but I tried to build chromium the other day but stopped when it said it required access to Google cloud platform to actually build it. If something requires a proprietary build system, does it matter that it's open source?
- nolist_policy 3y agoThat is not true. See every distribution packaging chromium. In particular, this package[1] by openSUSE builds completely offline. Many other distributions require packages to build offline. [1] https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/network:chromium/chromium https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/network:chromium/chr...
- forgotusername6 3y agoI think I got my wires crossed with ChromiumOS which when I last read the docs seemed to suggest that Google cloud platform was required. I now can't find those specific docs either so I retract my statement.