--- Murray Cumming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2006-10-21 at 12:10 +0800, Davyd Madeley > wrote: > > On Fri, 2006-10-20 at 22:09 +0100, Thomas Wood > wrote: > > > > > Do we currently have a dependency and module > documentation on-line > > > somewhere? I have had several people ask me > about such information (or > > > moan about the lack of). It would be good to > have a build guide for ISVs > > > at the very least. GNOME is becoming more and > more difficult to build > > > and package because of the lack of this type of > documentation (these are > > > comments I've had from both individuals and > people involved in small > > > distributions). If it is available somewhere, we > need better publicise > > > it better. > > > > In many respects, jhbuild _is_ the dependency tree > for building GNOME. A > > mode like `jhbuild list` will give you a list of > packages you need to > > build. It would be easily possible to put the > output of this command on > > a webpage if people thought they needed that. > > jhbuild dot meta-gnome-desktop > > jhbuild_gnome_desktop.dot > dot jhbuild_gnome_desktop.dot -Tpng > > jhbuild_dot_gnome_desktop.png > > is also fun: > http://www.gtkmm.org/jhbuild_dot_gnome_desktop.png
It doesn't generate an SVG that can be cleaned up a bit by hand and despaghettified? > (But I also think a build order plus a list of > external dependencies > should be enough.) Perhaps someone would care to add an item to the list of desired developer documents: http://live.gnome.org/DeveloperGuides Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ gnome-doc-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-doc-list
