Sorry, I didn't reply to all :-D Maybe you can just git clone a module you wish to hack on. However I consider myself a very beginner, and I successfully jhbuild'd gnome on Fedora18 without any problem.
Sciamp Il giorno 04/mar/2013 10:34, "Hashem" <[email protected]> ha scritto: > Yes jhbuild is pretty terrible for newcomers, but what better way is > there to work on in-development code? > > On 03/04/2013 03:47 AM, Michael Hasselmann wrote: > > On Sun, 2013-03-03 at 10:50 +0100, Sebastian Geiger wrote: > >> You can take a look at git.gnome.org and pick a module there. Since we > dont know what you are interested in its difficult to suggest a module. You > could take a look at Gtk+ or glib if you are interested in improving the > core plattform. Or look at gnome-shell, gnome-panel, mutter or metacity if > you want to work on the frontend. > >> > >> The gnome games might be a good start too. > >> > >> For a quick start you should become familiar with jhbuild so you can > build and run the modules. > > Could we perhaps stop giving beginners the advice to use jhbuild? It's a > > complex tool and things often break, which can be frustrating. On a > > modern enough & well maintained distro, there is usually no need for > > jhbuild if you only want to hack on some projects (and not the whole > > Gnome stack). > > > > ciao Michael > > > > _______________________________________________ > > gnome-love mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-love > _______________________________________________ > gnome-love mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-love >
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