On 8/9/06, Jonathon Jongsma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But if I remember correctly, Magnus Therning's struggles (mentioned > above and documented on the gnome-love mailing list) were actually > trying to build a tarball set (2.15.90 I believe) and he gave up in > frustration after several weeks. So while building from CVS is always > going to be a lot more difficult, even building from tarballs seems to > be too difficult for mere mortals. And making the tarball releases > easy to build by a normal developer would help immensely in getting > more smoke-testing and polish for the GNOME releases.
Yes, that's correct. One thing I'd like to point out, is those wanting to try to build from tarballs may want to strongly consider using GARNOME rather than the jhbuild tarball modulesets we've been releasing. joseph and guenther have been doing awesome work, they have a huge community of testers, GARNOME can be used to build much more than just modules from the official release sets, and GARNOME actually intends to support users. The jhbuild tarball modulesets are more geared to advanced users who either just want to see what versions we tested with (including external dependencies), or want to help smoketest the modules in the official release sets (and only those modules and only the exact versions used in that particular release); there's not a big community doing that and it's reflected in those modulesets. For example, there was a bug in the 2.15.90 moduleset causing a patch to be misapplied (and thus breaking the build) that wasn't caught for two weeks after the 2.15.90 release. That's fine for us advanced users, because we can track it down and fix it (or workaround it) rather quickly, but it derails those who are just starting out. My $0.02, Elijah _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list