2011/5/19 Olav Vitters <o...@vitters.nl>: > On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 11:41:08AM +0200, Sebastien Bacher wrote: >> Le jeudi 19 mai 2011 à 10:53 +0200, Olav Vitters a écrit : >> > That is perfectly valid advice. You need various things in your >> > distribution to help GNOME development. I would not advise anyone to >> > use Ubuntu anymore when they want to get involved with GNOME. > >> Could you give some details on what is the issue with running Ubuntu and >> contributing to GNOME? Several active GNOME contributors are running > > I've seen a lot of people on IRC and during the 3.0 party saying the 3.0 > PPA killed their Ubuntu. Or that their had a lot of difficulty to get a > jhbuild going. > > I cannot help them. And I noticed a lot of these issues going > unanswered. So my conclusion is that it is better to suggest something > else. > >> Ubuntu, do you means they are not welcome to contribute to GNOME because >> of the distribution they decided to use? > > No, not at all what I meant. That would be really really bad. > > Just that if someone asks on #gnome which distribution to start his > jhbuild on, I'd make clear that Ubuntu would mean a lot of difficulties. >
Indeed i noticed some problems using jhbuild on ubuntu 11.04 i guess it's libtool broken, because lot's of modules fails due *.la files. I'm not the only one seeing this issue [1] Luis 1 - http://osdir.com/ml/gnome-shell-list/2011-04/msg00026.html _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
