Index: third_party/protobuf26/README.chromium |
diff --git a/third_party/protobuf26/README.chromium b/third_party/protobuf26/README.chromium |
index 35df332a8261a1eeb88ef0a7c405be778bf403ee..9b1292cdfc3f2d16283cac2e346eb66f22da55ce 100644 |
--- a/third_party/protobuf26/README.chromium |
+++ b/third_party/protobuf26/README.chromium |
@@ -2,12 +2,12 @@ This directory contains google.protobuf module version 2.6.0 build 0. |
sergiyb@: It has been manually renamed to protobuf26. This is needed to avoid |
conflicts with a built-in google.protobuf module found on many developer |
-machines. The long-term solution to this problem, however, should be virtualenv. |
-Unfortunately due to limited time and lack of experience, it was not a |
-reasonable short-term solution. |
+machines. The long-term solution to this problem was to use virtualenv and it |
+was implemented, but had to be reverted due to incompatibilities with ChromiumOS |
+builds (see http://crbug.com/542922). |
-If you need to update this package, please make sure that you replace all |
-the references to google.protobuf in the package itself with protobuf26, e.g. |
+If you need to update this package, please make sure that you replace all the |
+references to google.protobuf in the package itself with protobuf26, e.g. |
from google.protobuf import text_format |
import google.protobuf |
@@ -17,4 +17,7 @@ becomes |
from protobuf26 import text_format |
import protobuf26 |
-Bug tracking setting up virtualenv for depot_tools is https://crbug.com/496241. |
+Original bug tracking setting up virtualenv for depot_tools was |
+http://crbug.com/503067, but it was closed as WontFix. If you believe that |
+virtualenv should be added to the current version of depot_tools, please re-open |
+that bug. |