On Tue, 2015-07-21 at 02:04 +0100, Alberto Ruiz wrote: > Relying on jhbuild from my point of view is a waste of everybody's > time, we've got all these developers building the same version of the > same > module in the same architecture again and again and again, to > reach more or > less the same state, all the people who give up on > writing a patch or > testing master everytime a module breaks (like the > latest libgit2-glib > issues for example) is a precious resource we're > wasting for not having the > right infrastructure. Up to the point of > glib or gtk+ is kinda handy but > beyond that is almost impractical.
The problem is that we have no way to make sure our modules are always in a buildable state. It's not impractical and it wouldn't even be particularly difficult, the result would look awfully like GNOME Continuous, building each jhbuild module in containers a few important distros; it's just a challenge nobody has had time to attempt yet. I was hoping GNOME Continuous would help with this, but the problem is that Continuous is completely separate from jhbuild so they can have different build issues; when an issue is detected in Continuous, it isn't fixed in jhbuild; and Continuous isn't a jhbuild replacement. I think our need is Continuous for jhbuild. In the meantime, all it takes to avoid the libgit2-glib situation is for someone to take a few minutes to roll back the module to an older version [1][2][3]. My bad for not doing this immediately when I noticed the problem; I wanted to give the developers some time to fix the issue, but in hindsight that was wrong; these issues must be addressed immediately since they block contributors from working on GNOME. The other issue with jhbuild right now is a circular dependency problem between, erm, g-i, vala, and... something else, I forget, which causes everything to fail for new users but work fine for existing users. This sucks. To avoid this, we need a dependency that says "build this module eventually after building me" or "build me eventually after building this other module," which we don't currently have. (I thought it was "after" but that's something else.) [1] https://git.gnome.org/browse/jhbuild/commit/?id=baa893595c98900e069 8dab2286953e0a5d723db [2] https://git.gnome.org/browse/jhbuild/commit/?id=661878b5ca0a1a97fed 1f5f61ecaa5991bf870d5 [3] https://git.gnome.org/browse/jhbuild/commit/?id=b651a03d8f1f7b7e2c3 ccd56de25ea42c2b2b9f6 _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
