On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 17:55 -0500, Federico Mena Quintero wrote: > I've been having a terrible time trying to get something tested on top > of Gnome 3.4, all because I can't get 3.4 built from jhbuild. I'm too > old to build from tarballs, and my distro doesn't carry 3.4 yet. > > I wonder how people who hack on "core Gnome" do it on a day to day > basis. > > Here are the results of a little poll/brainstorm on Twitter: > https://live.gnome.org/BuildMeHarder <snip> > So this mail is about: how do *you* hack on Gnome on an everyday basis? > Do people get their source trees built only up to the modules they hack > on, and ignore the rest (been there, done that)? Do people wait until a > distro carries packages for development versions (too late in the game; > been there, done that)? How would *you* make Gnome score higher on the > Joel Test?
I build the minimum stack that isn't shipped by my distribution. That means that I use released development versions of almost everything but the component I'm working on. This also means I can compare my experience with other people running the packages, rather than compare versions of every component in the whole stack. > (Side thoughts: how many people have *actually* tested a full 3.4 > install?) I did, mostly through my distribution. Building the whole desktop and dependencies to test one program would drive me up the wall. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
