Re: [Builder] DX of using stable Builder version

[anatoly techtonik <techtonik gmail com>]

On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 12:12 PM, Christian Hergert <christian hergert me> wrote:
> Hi Anatoly,
>
> On 05/02/2016 06:21 PM, anatoly techtonik wrote:
> > Developers know better when a product is better than
> > package maintainers. What is the proper way to use
> > latest stable version of Builder on Ubuntu?
...
> One possibility, if you are fine with the restriction, is to install
> Builder using Xdg-App. The restriction is currently that you cannot use
> Builder to build Xdg-App's when run in Xdg-App (because the container
> technology on Linux does not allow us to be recursive).

Nice. So it is LXD for applications..

I am writing this, because there might be no other chance to reply. I
failed to install xdg-app, because it is not available from Ubuntu, and
Gnome wiki was 503 to read instructions. So DX check failed for me. )

> Additionally, the terminal support in Builder will show you the
> file-system layout from *inside* the xdg-app (as opposed to your host
> system). But if both of these implementation details are okay to you,
> the Xdg-App should work fine.

Not sure how would I work with it then. Should I check out files inside
like with LXD? So I need to pass SSH keys and setup everything to
work from inside container? That seems like an overkill.

Is it possible to just share current directory with container?

> I just did this to test:
>
> wget https://people.gnome.org/~alexl/keys/gnome-sdk.gpg
> xdg-app remote-add --user --gpg-import=gnome-sdk.gpg gnome
> http://sdk.gnome.org/repo/
> xdg-app --user install gnome org.gnome.Sdk 3.20
> xdg-app --user remote-add --gpg-key=gnome-sdk.gpg gnome-apps
> http://sdk.gnome.org/repo-apps/
> xdg-app --user install gnome-apps org.gnome.Builder stable
> xdg-app run --branch=stable org.gnome.Builder
>
> I also noticed that the Xdg-App version of Builder is missing Jedi for
> python auto-completion. I'll see if we can get that updated for dot
> releases of 3.20.

-- 
anatoly t.