Re: Enabling builddir != srcdir by default in jhbuild

2016-02-28 Thread Jens Georg
On So, 2016-02-28 at 15:43 +0100, Jens Georg wrote: > >  * automated builds of our software are possible without hacks > >  * distchecking projects does not fail at the very last minute > > before > > release but during development > >  * we bring the development environment and the continuous > >

Re: Enabling builddir != srcdir by default in jhbuild

2016-02-28 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
Hi; On 28 February 2016 at 15:54, Michael Catanzaro wrote: > On Sun, 2016-02-28 at 14:33 +, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: >> My proposal is to enable this behaviour in the default jhbuildrc, so >> that all GNOME projects automatically build in a separate root. This >> change

Re: Enabling builddir != srcdir by default in jhbuild

2016-02-28 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Sun, 2016-02-28 at 14:33 +, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: > My proposal is to enable this behaviour in the default jhbuildrc, so > that all GNOME projects automatically build in a separate root. This > change should have no, or minimal impact on the subset of the > moduleset that is covered by

Re: Enabling builddir != srcdir by default in jhbuild

2016-02-28 Thread Sébastien Wilmet
On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 02:33:02PM +, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: > buildroot = '~/gnome/build' I agree it's a good idea, but I'll need to change a little my habits when I run 'make' in only one sub-directory. Instead of being at the same place in the git repo, I'll need to be somewhere in

Re: Enabling builddir != srcdir by default in jhbuild

2016-02-28 Thread Richard Hughes
On 28 February 2016 at 14:33, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: > What do maintainers think? Makes sense to me. The quicker we catch a destdir/srcdir issue the easier it is to fix. Richard ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list

Re: Enabling builddir != srcdir by default in jhbuild

2016-02-28 Thread Jens Georg
>  * automated builds of our software are possible without hacks >  * distchecking projects does not fail at the very last minute before > release but during development >  * we bring the development environment and the continuous deployment > environment closer > > What do maintainers think?

Enabling builddir != srcdir by default in jhbuild

2016-02-28 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
Hi all; as you may know, automated build services – for instance Continuous, OBS, or the autotools distcheck – use a build directory that is not the same as the source directory. Our own jhbuild allows this, even if it's disabled by default. This means that developers may work on a feature or a