Note that the reason is that V8 is also being used by other embedders than Chrome, notably Node.js. Node.js still uses GYP and will continue to do so in the foreseeable future. Until that is resolved, dependencies of V8 will have to keep their GYP configurations up-to-date.

./third_party/icu/icu.gyp is pulled in via DEPS, and isn't part of the chromium repo, so we have no particular plans to delete it.

gtest and gmock will probably need to be cleaned up as part of the next roll of googletest, where the repos get merged together.

gtest and gmock are checked into v8, so it's really just about icu.gyp

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@Yang: Wonder if this still holds? We removed gyp in V8. Node.js has their own copy. They could have their own copy for ICU, too, right?

Yup. This is correct. Though that would also mean Node.js needs to maintain ICU's gyp files on ICU updates too.