On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 22:34 -0700, Elijah Newren wrote: > On Jan 29, 2008 12:32 PM, Benjamin Otte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I looked into jhbuild and external deps are always tarballs. So I was > > wondering if there was a policy against depending on development > > versions for external deps. It's a bit more work for jhbuilders after > > all. > > Otherwise I'd update the modules to depend on Swfdec git until 0.6.0 is out. > > Yes, this was a very deliberate policy decision. Tracking > svn/cvs/git/whatever of external dependencies made gnome essentially > unbuildable a few cycles back. It wasn't just SoC students spending > their first three *weeks* trying to do nothing but get Gnome to build, > we had lots of developers saying they couldn't complete the task > either and couldn't test their own module against current svn of other > modules. Despite updating my build several times a week, even I was > struggling to keep things built. It was a nightmare.
Add to that our writers. You have to be able to run the latest Gnome to write documentation about it, and building the latest Gnome is enough of a pain as it is. I can't even tell you how many potential contributors we've lost because it's just too damn hard to get up and running. -- Shaun _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
