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Issue 137373002: Move Version Assembly code out of chrome_elf. (Closed) Base URL: svn://svn.chromium.org/chrome/trunk/src
Patch Set: Watchlists Created 6 years, 11 months ago
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Index: chrome/app/version_assembly/README
diff --git a/chrome_elf/README b/chrome/app/version_assembly/README
similarity index 58%
rename from chrome_elf/README
rename to chrome/app/version_assembly/README
index b657437375641fe34d6e97393f8208006489bc8c..082eaa7ba2f4eabbd78d16dc950942df7798962f 100644
--- a/chrome_elf/README
+++ b/chrome/app/version_assembly/README
@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
-Chrome Early Loading Framework (aka ChromeELF)
+Chrome Version Assembly
-chrome_elf.dll is shipped in Chrome's version directory to ease updates,
-and is loaded early in chrome.exe's lifetime. This is done by turning the
-version directory into a private assembly which refers to chrome_elf.dll
-(http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/aa374224.aspx).
+The chrome version assembly makes it possible for load-time dependencies of
+chrome.exe to be shipped in Chrome's version directory to ease updates (eg.
+chrome_elf.dll). This is done by turning the version directory into a private
+assembly which refers to any DLLs that chrome.exe needs to know about. New DLLs
+should be added as <file> entries in "version_assembly_manifest.template".
In an ideal world, this would be done by embedding an application config in
chrome.exe that would refer to the proper version directory via a
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