Hi :o) On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 13:31 +0100, Joachim Noreiko wrote: > Brent, will you be able to make a VM available like > you did last time?
I was rather seriously considering building vmware images of GNOME a while back, until I leaned that a new team, the BuildBrigade [1] was planning on doing this. I considered that there was no point in duplicating effort, and that they would make a much better, surely less kludgeish solution than me, so I decided against building the images. Some time has now passed, and I am wondering how close they are to providing the RPMs. Looking at their mailing list provides little clues so I sent them a message asking for information on the progress. It could certainly be worth building vmware images in the mean time - in which case I'm volunteering to do this again [2]. Love, Karderio. [1] http://live.gnome.org/BuildBrigade [2] I have had much trouble with garnome and jhbuild under Ubuntu, the devs are very helpful but a solution to one problem just seems to lead me to a new and exciting problem; this leads me to wonder if these tools in fact don't like me [3]. I once proudly got GNOME to compile in a fedora core virtual machine, so I think my next effort would be with this distribution. [3] Autotools (automake, autoconf etc) to me seems like a rather bad solution to a not necessarily so complex problem. I started hacking on a project [4] a few months ago, and for the time being, I'd estimate, without exaggeration, that every hour I spend hacking C code that adds a new feature I spend up to five hours messing with make, most of the time getting nowhere. I'm feel I'm going to have to spend days reading up and learning autotools, as I just can't handle messing about, copying code from other makefiles only to get the nice helpful sort of error message "script doesn't work - try again". Frustrating, especially as autotools work is particularly unrewarding to me. Anyone heard of scons ? </rant with the longest sentence I have ever written> [4] http://glipper.sourceforge.net/ [5] [5] Nestled footnote are cool ! _______________________________________________ gnome-doc-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-doc-list
