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Google checks in Skia into Google Gears; Firefox 3.1+ updates
Skia is a graphics library made by Skia, a company Google had earlier bought. The library is used in Android and Chrome and both platforms are already target deployments for Google Gears. Nevertheless, it is an interesting development as to why it was checked in. You can see the check in log here.
The check in had a bit of a horrific impact on getting Gears to build from the current SVN version. The paths are horrifically mucked up between ./third_party/skia/include/code and ./third_party/skia/include. The actual SVN tree has a lot of missing files too, you will need to manually copy them over from the websvn cached copy to get it to build.
The bad news is that, even after getting it to build, even the SVN version of Gears (0.5.12.0) does not work on anything upward of Firefox 3.1. Will post updates if I see any change in the situation.
