Caolan McNamara wrote:
On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 20:25 +0200, Jan Holesovsky wrote:
Another advantage is that it is also easy for the potential
contributors to install just the
-devel packages of the dependencies, and start with the development in
the package where he/she wants to fix something - eg. you (generally)
do not have to build everything up to Writer if you want to fix a
Writer bug
I don't think I can stress the worth of being able to do that enough
btw. I'd never have bothered to even look at a line of xorg code in the
pre modularized build days and e.g. just waved away various valgrind
errors from x libs, but post-modularization it was a trivial matter to
scratch that itch and see was there something in those libs that needed
fixing. The build was guaranteed to work first-time without having to
read a single how-to-build readme, and was going to be short.
Fully agreed, currently contributors need to do a full build to check
their changes, this hurdle is too high for many to actually care enough
to contribute.
C.
Kay
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