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Status: Duplicate
Merged: issue 504074
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Closed: Jul 2016
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Type: Bug



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Make GN support NON-Chrome projects

Project Member Reported by afakhry@chromium.org, Apr 22 2016

Issue description

I use GYP for all my personal and experimentation projects, but I see the benefits of GN.

Are there plans to make GN support non-chrome projects?

Running `gn init` (or any other command) outside a chromium checkout gives the following error:
gn.py: Could not find checkout in any parent of the current path.
This must be run inside a checkout.

 
Labels: Build-Tools-GN
Mergedinto: 504074
Status: Duplicate (was: Untriaged)
gn.py is a depot_tools wrapper that works specifically w/ some of the chromium-infra projects. I wouldn't want to encourage people to use it for their own projects.

People can build or download existing GN binaries and write their own build files today, so in that sense you can do whatever you'd like right now.

There is some desire to package up some form of GN to make things easier to reuse, though. See  bug 504074 .

I'm going to close this request as a duplicate of that, but feel free to contact me or email gn-dev@chromium.org if you have other questions.

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