On 8/9/06, Federico Mena Quintero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
But if I remember correctly, Magnus Therning's struggles (mentioned above and documented on the gnome-love mailing list) were actually trying to build a tarball set (2.15.90 I believe) and he gave up in frustration after several weeks. So while building from CVS is always going to be a lot more difficult, even building from tarballs seems to be too difficult for mere mortals. And making the tarball releases easy to build by a normal developer would help immensely in getting more smoke-testing and polish for the GNOME releases. -- jonner _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
