1 sync-and-gyp 2 ============ 3 4 [`sync-and-gyp`](https://skia.googlesource.com/skia.git/+/master/bin/sync-and-gyp) 5 is a Python program that wraps `gclient sync` and `gyp_skia`. 6 Motivations for using it: 7 8 - Fewer steps to configure and compile Skia and Skia's dependencies. 9 This makes documentation cleaner, too. 10 11 - Written in Python, so it will work on all platforms. Python is 12 already necessary for gyp. 13 14 - Sets up gclient better than `gclient config`, which has been broken. 15 16 - Checks to see if the `DEPS` file has changed since it last ran 17 `gclient sync`. If not, it skips that step. 18 19 - Checks to see if gyp needs to be re-run (it checks environment 20 variables and changed or added files); if not, it skips running 21 `gyp_skia`. 22 23 - Since running `sync-and-gyp` is fast when it can do nothing, it is 24 easy to do before every recompile of Skia. This is a good habit. 25
