Neal Gompa wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 8, 2021 at 9:16 AM Vitaly Zaitsev via devel
> <devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> On 08/11/2021 10:12, Andreas Schneider wrote:
>> > I'm interested in this, as I try to package electron for Fedora.
>>
>> Electron can't be build completely from sources without downloading
>> pre-built binaries/blobs from npm.
>>
>
> This is not true anymore.
As I understand it, it was never true, in the sense that it was always
*possible* to build Electron completely from sources. The issue was that the
upstream build system worked against you there and that you had to jump
through a lot of hoops to use components built from source instead of blobs
downloaded from somewhere. Each of the Electron stages was just downloading
the next lower layer as a blob, which in turn included the next lower layer
as a blob. In particular, each Electron app bundled the Electron blob which
was just downloaded from Electron at build time, and each Electron build
bundled the Chromium fork blob which was also downloaded as a blob during
the build. (I think there were even one or two additional blob layers that I
have forgotten. The minified JavaScript blobs you mention were probably also
already part of it.) I do not know to what extent, if at all, this has been
improved since last I checked.
Kevin Kofler
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