Hi all, Just to give my feeling about this point. Because my PC is under Windows for professional reasons, I'm using sugar-build from a VirtualBox VM. I've recently recreated my sugar-build VM. I choose an Ubuntu 13.04 VM because no Fedora 18 pre-installed VM is available from now and I have no time to re installed it from scratch. In a VM, webkitgtk take more than 3 hours to build, so I must let my computer powered and wait for the end of the task. It's a long time BTW it's a one-time only operation. So it doesn't mind.
I think that allowing developers to easily contribute is very important. Thanks to the current process, it's pretty easy to start your contribution to Sugar: - Download a pre-installed Ubuntu 13.04 (this one [1] for example), - Install GIT using "sudo apt-get install git" - Follow instructions here: [2] You're now a new Sugar contributor! So I'm not favorable to force the use of Fedora 19 that put complexity in the current process. Just my two cents. Lionel. [1] http://184.173.199.227/~jimslice/VMs/Ubuntu/13.04/VirtualBox_-_Ubuntu-13.04- i386-Desktop-RELEASE-%5BVirtualBoxImages.com%5D.rar [2] http://sugarlabs.org/~buildbot/docs/build.html ------------------------------ Message: 7 Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 09:28:15 +0200 From: Simon Schampijer <si...@schampijer.de> To: sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] [sugar-build] Is webkitgtk becoming a barrier? Message-ID: <5199d08f.2060...@schampijer.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed On 05/19/2013 01:41 PM, Daniel Narvaez wrote: > Hey, > > It seems like building webkitgtk is a bit of a pain for many people. I > would like people feedback on how bad of an obstacle it really is and about > a couple of possible solutions: > > 1 Have buildbot generate snapshots of the base system dependencies which > most people are unlikely to want to modify anyway and upload those. It > would probably be a system.img file which you would put in your sugar-build > directory. With that file present, the external sugar dependencies would > not be downloaded and built at all. > > 2 Officially support Fedora 19, disable the webkitgtk build there and > suggest people for which building webkigtk is too much to use Fedora19. I would go for option (2). Fedora 19 is not that far away [1]. Option (1) sounds like a lot of continuous work for supporting and you start digging you a hole for a while... Regards, Simon [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/19/Schedule _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel