+1 overall. The Wiki recommends sugar-jhbuild as an environment for developers.
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Development_Team Development systems All of core Sugar development except system-dependent modifications can be done on a standard computer by compiling jhbuild and editing with your favorite editor (eclipse/pydev, emacs, vim, etc.). Given its dismal record of being able to compile and run, I have not found that to be the case. I had complete success _once_ over a period of months. On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Bernie Innocenti <ber...@codewiz.org> wrote: > Today I've kick-started a newbie on building Sugar to fix a small bug > and submit his first patch. > > It was just painful. jhbuild has plenty of rough corners and we could > easily make things easier with a few changes: > > 1) Stop checking out random unstable versions of external projects. > They break very often, and we cannot fix them. Let's instead upgrade > manually every once in a while after some testing. Yes! > 2) Do not build C modules that is already available (and recent enough) > in popular distros. Specifically: abiword, matchbox, hippocanvas... Assuming that we aren't building modified versions, of course. > 3) Let's move etoys away from the base set of components: the repository > is often offline, building it breaks very often, and it takes a lot of > time. You don't need it in order to test Sugar, the same way you don't > need TamTam and TurtleArt. And you don't usually need Sugar to test Etoys. Now that we have numerous functioning images with functioning Activities, this works for me. Although I would miss TamTam and Turtle Art. Did I mention that The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose (California) wants to do an XO exhibit, with a focus on art and music education? > 4) We could check for prerequisites before starting the build. Some > configure scripts are stupid enough to fail tests silently and proceed > anyway using "no" as a command name in make :-) Isn't that supposed to be the purpose of './sugar-jhbuild depscheck'? It doesn't always work, and could be considerably improved with distribution-specific knowledge. > If there's consensus on implementing one or more of these points, I can > provide patches (or just go on and commit them). Please. > -- > // Bernie Innocenti - http://codewiz.org/ > \X/ Sugar Labs - http://sugarlabs.org/ > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > -- Silent Thunder (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) is my name And Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, The Truth my destination. http://earthtreasury.org/worknet (Edward Mokurai Cherlin) _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel