Hi, I am a beginner with jhbuild. But, I personally like the idea proposed by Thomas H.P. Andersen, as it builds a more coherent structure for the files to saved at. I also believe that, a bug [1], that I have reported, will prove relevant in this case. I will also be very grateful, if somebody can review the patch that I have proposed.
[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=698456 On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 5:39 PM, Thomas H.P. Andersen <[email protected]>wrote: > Getting started with jhbuild will be easier if we just have better > defaults. Specifically prefix = /opt/gnome is annoying. We have a few > bugs about the changing the defaults already [1][2][3], > recommendations for overriding the defaults for beginners [4], > complaints [5], and previous discussions here. > > From [1][3][4] the following setup is suggested: > > ~/jhbuild/src - for checkoutroot > ~/jhbuild/downloads - for tarballdir > ~/jhbuild/mirror - for dvcs_mirror_dir > ~/jhbuild/install - for prefix > ~/jhbuild/src/jhbuild - for jhbuild itself (not really a default but > recommended) > > Defaulting prefix to a directory under ~ will make jhbuild usable out > of the box. No need to create a .jhbuildrc or fiddle with chmod. > > Are there non-bikeshed reasons not to do this? Are there things that > will break so bad that the cost outweigh the benefit? > > [1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=655714 > [2] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=656611 > [3] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=669439 > [4] https://live.gnome.org/Jhbuild/desrt%27sSetup > [5] https://live.gnome.org/AndreasNilsson/PathOfLeastResistance > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list > -- regards, Nikhil Siddhartha IIIT Hyderabad
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