[Hamara-devel] jhbuild and gnome 3.16

[Vikas Tara]

On 05/05/15 20:40, shirish wrote:
> 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.
>
Yeah - I'd like to take that for a spin!

We could build an installer for it.

> 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
Are you planning to build 3.16?
>
>
> 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.
>
I don't have previous experience of it - but will take a look - I want 
to update my hamara desktop to 3.16 ;)