Am Montag, den 05.03.2007, 10:45 +0100 schrieb Alexander Larsson: > On Sat, 2007-03-03 at 17:41 +0100, Martin Swientek wrote: > > Hallo, > > > > I've got a problem to connect to a webdav account using nautilus. I want > > to take this as an opportunity to start digging into the code and trying > > to find out what's going wrong. And maybe I can contribute something to > > the Gnome development as I've enjoyed using Gnome for some time now. > > > > To start I've managed to build and run the latest Nautilus from svn in > > my stable Gnome 2.16.2 environment on Gentoo. I can imagine that this > > approach may lead to some problems tracking the needed dependencies. For > > example, the Nautilus I've build now uses all the stable libs from my > > distribution. So If I want to track down my webdav problem, I'll also > > have to build gnome-vfs from svn and make sure Nautilus uses this > > instead, and so on. > > > > So I'm wondering, what's your preferred method to setup your development > > environment? Do you use a stable Gnome system delivered and maintained > > by your distribution like I did? Or do you use a complete Gnome > > development version like 2.17.xx? > > I think there are three main approaches: > * Use jhbuild (or something like it) to build a complete copy of Gnome > in a separate prefix, and use that > * Run an unstable distro that tracks the latest gnome > * "wing it" and install just the package you work on and what new > requirements it needs manually > > The last version is the most risky as it can mess up your system a bit > and it requires some knowledge of the gnome depenencies. > > I personally use jhbuild. > > For the specific case of nautilus 2.18 you might be able to run it > without so much dependencies, because there aren't a lot of changes from > 2.16 and 2.18.
Thanks for your replies and suggestions. I think I'll go for the jhbuild method. Best regards, Martin Swientek -- nautilus-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list
