[Hamara-devel] jhbuild and gnome 3.16

[shirish]

Hi all,
It would be nice if we are able to package and distribute the latest 
stable jhbuild and then use to build and try out 3.16 and see how the 
various modules work with each other.

See https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Jhbuild for more info.

I just filed a bug in Debian BTS for an updated jhbuild as the one in 
debian is pretty much obsolete.

See #784360 in Debian BTS.

It took quite a bit of time but was able to clone jhbuild to ~/.local/bin

The only sad part, wasn't able to get the --version command and realized
somebody reported it sometime back, chimed in so hopefully some action 
happens soonish.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=742037

JHbuild is unique in the sense it also works like git or any version 
control + works as a build tool also (like gcc make and others.) I am 
not sure where the modules end up which are built. Do they lie in the 
directory in which they were built or what happens (something like what 
chroot, schroot or python virtualenv does).

What is/was interesting to note is that the freedesktop people also seem 
to use it. See http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/jhbuild/

If people have any experience of working with jhbuild push it here so 
that it can be put into wiki later.

Look forward to any ideas, feedback etc.

-- 
Regards,
Shirish Agarwal,
Community Lead,
Hamaralinux.org