On Tue, 2006-08-08 at 20:59 -0500, Jason D. Clinton wrote: [CCing Josselin; please read the last quoted paragraph :) ]
> On Tue, 2006-08-08 at 18:55 -0600, Elijah Newren wrote: > > /me starts cheerleading federico on > > > > I don't know the answers, but the building-gnome nightmare is long > > overdue for discussion. > ... > > Magnus Therning spent a similar amount of time recently, with the gory > > details archives on the gnome-love list. I totally agree with you. > > > > Most of the build issues are due to the fact that we allow > > dependencies on cvs versions of freedesktop.org modules. I'd like to > > propose that we move away from that, and just pick certain tarball > > versions to depend on at the beginning of a release; and require > > specific proposals to allow dependencies on newer tarball versions if > > issues come up. Thoughts? Comments? > > I would be very interesting in hearing the opinions of people like > Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> who build new releases of GNOME for > their respective distributions regularly. How do they keep up? What > tricks are they using? Can we steal some of their ideas? Doesn't Debian always build from tarballs? Or are they pulling CVS snapshots? I imagine that tarballs aren't that big of a problem, since they have been at least 'make distcheck'ed and if you are building a .deb or .rpm, you *do* want to install to system paths. Federico _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list