On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 9:43 AM, Omar Barboza Kostiuk
<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi everyone,
I've been following gnome-builder for some time now and I'd like to
try it out and see if I can somehow contribute.
Hi,
I'm a java developer,
but I'd gladly try to pick up some (at first small) tasks to help with
the development, if I can.
What do I need for that? What Linux distribution do you use?
If you're looking for a recommendation I would say Fedora, but you can
use pretty much whatever distribution you want to build Builder. But
see below.
In what
IDE do you develop gnome-builder? Or do you just use a plain text
editor?
You should use Builder itself. :) It's got a long way to go, but it's
usable for daily work. I keep gedit handy when I need to use
find/replace, but that's pretty much it.
I checked out and tried to build the latest version, but there
are dependencies to libraries that are not yet stable (for example
gtk+ 3.15.3) and thus not yet in the repositories of the distribution
I use. I also tried building gtk+ 3.15.3, but there again I had
package requirements not met, because the installed version are not
new enough... it seems a never ending circle.
Can anyone point me to the right direction?
The "secret" is jhbuild [1] which will clone and build all of those
dependencies for you in the proper order (just replace gnome-weather
with gnome-builder in the instructions on that page). This should work
on whatever distribution you're currently using so long as you don't
see any missing required dependencies when you run the command 'jhbuild
sysdeps --install gnome-builder' (and if so, you're on your own to
install them). The sysdeps are intentionally kept relatively low so it
*should* work on the latest version of most major distros. It's
regularly tested on Fedora.
Thanks,
Michael (not a Builder developer, I just happens to read this list)
[1] https://wiki.gnome.org/GnomeLove/BuildGnome
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