| There may be instances where CEF requires changes to the source code for |
| Chromium, Blink or third-party projects that are either not desired by those |
| projects or that have not yet been merged into the source code versions of those |
| projects used by CEF. To address this situation the CEF project adds a patch |
| capability as part of cef_create_projects[.bat|sh] build step. This patch |
| capability works as follows: |
| |
| 1. The CEF developer creates one or more patch files containing all required |
| code changes and places those patch files in the "patches" subdirectory. |
| 2. The CEF developer adds an entry for each patch file in the "patch.cfg" file. |
| 3. When building CEF from source code the patch files are applied by the |
| patcher.py tool via the cef_create_projects[.bat|sh] build step |
| 4. When updating Chromium the patch_updater.py tool is used to update all patch |
| files. See https://bitbucket.org/chromiumembedded/cef/wiki/ChromiumUpdate.md |
| for more information about the update process. |
