On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 5:39 PM, Kai Willadsen <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 30 November 2013 08:33, Scott Kostyshak <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 5:25 PM, Kai Willadsen <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>>> On 30 November 2013 08:22, Scott Kostyshak <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> On Ubuntu 13.10 with a fresh git clone I get the following when trying
>>>> to run meld:
>>>>
>>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>>   File "/usr/local/bin/meld", line 180, in <module>
>>>>     import meld.meldapp
>>>>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/meld/meldapp.py", line
>>>> 33, in <module>
>>>>     import meld.preferences
>>>>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/meld/preferences.py",
>>>> line 32, in <module>
>>>>     from meld.settings import settings, interface_settings
>>>>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/meld/settings.py", line
>>>> 25, in <module>
>>>>     False,
>>>> gi._glib.GError: Failed to open file
>>>> '/usr/share/meld/gschemas.compiled': open() failed: No such file or
>>>> directory
>>>>
>>>> I did a search on meld-list and did not find any related thread. Any 
>>>> advice?
>>>
>>> See https://mail.gnome.org/archives/meld-list/2013-November/msg00017.html
>>> and https://mail.gnome.org/archives/meld-list/2013-November/msg00011.html
>>>
>>> cheers,
>>> Kai
>>
>> Thanks for the quick response Kai.
>
> I'm mostly just terrified by how many people seem to have come to
> expect Meld to work from a git HEAD checkout. I mean... *I* expect it
> to work but then it would be a worry if I didn't.
>
> GSettings/dconf is actually really unpleasant here. I don't know of
> any sensible way I can have Meld work without a build step anymore.
> (It'll be a minimal build step, but still...)  We *could* try to run
> glib-compile-schemas if we think we're in a checkout, but that's not
> the sanest notion ever.
>

Makes sense. Sounds tricky. As for expecting git HEAD to work, I did
not. Well, I would have guessed that it would work, but I was
definitely not surprised when it did not. Perhaps I should have made
it more clear that I was just asking for advice and not trying to
report a "bug".

I like being able to build on git HEAD because I've reported a couple
of meld bugs. It is nice to reproduce bugs on the development version
and it's also nice to be able to do bisects (e.g. there was a bug that
you couldn't reproduce that was specific to Ubuntu. I think in the end
it might have ended up being an Ubuntu bug that was triggered by a
meld commit).

Best,

Scott
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