On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 1:23 AM Mathieu Bridon <boche...@daitauha.fr> wrote:
> On Fri, 2016-09-02 at 08:09 +0000, philip.chime...@gmail.com wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 5:43 AM Michael Catanzaro <mcatanz...@gnome.or > > g> wrote: > > > On Tue, 2016-08-30 at 21:25 +0000, philip.chime...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > I've been thinking about the exact same thing recently; how about > > > a > > > > 'jhbuild jump' command that will take you from a location under > > > > srcdir to > > > > the corresponding location under builddir and vice versa? And > > > perhaps > > > > have > > > > some environment variables defined as well. > > > > > > It could run 'jhbuild shell' if UNDER_JHBUILD is unset, then do the > > > jump. That would be useful. > > > > I soon ran into the should-have-been-obvious-in-hindsight limitation > > that you can't change the parent process's working directory from a > > jhbuild command. > > In the python world we have `pew`, which allows to maintain > effortlessly your virtual environments. Virtual environments are like > the Python equivalent of the jhbuild shell. > > One thing that is amazing with pew is that it provides a > > $ pew workon $project > > command which both activates the virtualenv **and** move you to the > source directory of the project you asked to work on. > > Which sounds similar to what you'd like for `jhbuild jump` (except that > would place you into the builddir, not the scrdir). > > The way pew does that it simply runs a new shell in the right working > directory. > > Couldn't `jhbuild jump` do the same? > Certainly could, though I didn't go for that immediately because I was afraid of shells piling up. For me at least, the intended usage would have been when I am already inside of a jhbuild shell. E.g., when a build fails and I start a shell from the menu, I end up in the builddir and I'd like to quickly get to the srcdir from there. How do others feel about jhbuild jump always starting a new shell? Regards, Philip C
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