Comments on: Every Detail Matters 2 is open for Hacking!

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[...] according to their original size (and creation time), so you can easier identify an application. We had print this when Allan present it as part of Every Details Matters project. Well, it is different reading something and trying it [...]

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[...] Every Detail Matters 2 is open for Hacking! [...]

By: foobar

foobar — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 02:34:00 +0000

jhbuild is pretty much a helper that builds (with the right setting) the package you want to hack on and all dependencies for you. It is nice in case you want to work on a application needing newer library versions as you have installed. It is unfortunately not always trouble-free to use but quite helpful when you get used to it.

It really depends on the package you want to hack on. Several libs and project wont use recently added symbols anyway.

By: alex285

alex285 — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 23:17:00 +0000

JHBuild is needed for building (and running) an isolated (from your current) Gnome version from Gnome Git. It is meant for those that doing “core” Gnome Development (typically on the next Gnome Version, i.e. 3.8). You can build only the package you are working on, plus the dependencies.

Personally I think building next Gnome in a Rawhide is easier. And I say personally, because obviously I don’t know how to use JHBuild. I just tried once yesterday :)

By: w1ngnut

w1ngnut — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 22:57:00 +0000

Really? Was planning to setup UGR but if it’s that nighmare, what’s next? jhbuild is essential to build it? Do we need to build it all or just the package we’re working on?

By: alex285

alex285 — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 11:13:00 +0000

Yesterday I managed to run GS with JHBuild – o/ – in UGR..It took me like 3 hours :) I spend another 5-6 hours to try to build GCCenter, with no luck :)

By: foobar

foobar — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 01:35:00 +0000

Doesn’t matter, you wont get around jhbuild anyway. Believe me, I tried. :)

By: alex285

alex285 — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 23:58:00 +0000

I guess Fedora is a better choice if you are going to do Gnome developing.

By: w1ngnut

w1ngnut — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 23:24:00 +0000

I want to contribute to this project. As soon as I get an operational ubuntu at home will dive into this. Great initiative!

By: alex285

alex285 — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 19:55:00 +0000

Good times ahead indeed :)

By: Stiph

Stiph — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 18:38:00 +0000

This is a very nice way to attract new developers and improve all those little (or bigger) bits the main developers do not have time to work on.
I’m tempted to contribute myself, I just have to find something easy enough.

I’ve been developing a gnome-shell extension (in JS), and the platform is really faster to develop with for newcomers than C because of IDE shortcomings. Of course, this is because of tradeoffs on autocompletion and assistance as there is no compilation, no debugging, etc. But globally, I think the learning curve is lower, and the maintenance is about equal (I will not say easier, as I have no mean of testing regression except testing everything, and there is no unit tests for extensions which is the only solution for robustness in runtime environments -but, the code is wa~~~~y shorter).

Good times ahead!