On 01/27/2011 03:56 PM, Stephen Greenwalt wrote:
Boot Camp . . . good idea. Docs . . . good idea.
Let the newbie's like me (coming out of boot camp) write some
of the Docs.
Presently I have everything compiled and running under
Ubuntu, and I am just reviewing the code to get some sort of
context.
It is huge. Incredible, actually. Who wrote all of this?
Wow.
A few comments:
* It seems to work best to put the entire project (all
source, and all build product) under a project folder in the
Home directory.
For me, not at all. I put the gimp trunk, the babl trunk, and the
gegl trunk under /usr/local and they install into /usr/local/lib,
/usr/local/include, and /usr/local/bin. Since I have /usr/local/bin
in my path first they're found first. I have my ld.so.conf.d
contain a file that puts /usr/local/lib into the ld.so
configuration.
* If possible, that should include a copy of any
external dependencies . . . with environment variables (etc)
adjusted accordingly
* The project ought to be able to exist in a "bubble"
. . . so as to avoid confusion . . . regarding copies of
dependencies that might exist in the OS.
For me that bubble, is /usr/local
* Multiple different project versions ought to be able to
exist on the same machine without stepping over each other.
I just use the trunk.
Note: I wrote a minimal bash script that duplicates
(automates) the steps I took to get to the present state. Maybe
we could expand on that idea.
I just pull the sources down from git, configure and make babl,
configure and make gegl, configure and make gimp. All easy and
automatic. No script needed.
* If we do it right, compiling for Linux vs. Windows vs. OSx
ought require no more than the flip of a switch. The Blender
folks, and others, are moving in that direction.
* Shouldn't we standardize on a common development IDE (like
Eclipse)? If I am missing something in that area . . . let me
know.
I, and a lot of other geeks like me don't use IDEs.
Patrick
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