Re: build.gnome.org

[Colin Walters <walters verbum org>]

On Wed, 2013-01-02 at 11:23 -0800, Travis Reitter wrote:

> I think our best bet for a usable SDK would be something that sets up a
> QEMU instance on top of OSTree

I have scripts for this
( http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-ostree/tree/src/ostbuild/ostbuild-qemu-pull-deploy?id=d99b501bb0fbc5c866f7f7774b1c7710308ddbd1 )

but really the whole ostree/gnome-ostree stack here needs significant
levels of work and polish.

> Being able to build against a single set of
> pre-built binaries should dramatically lower the trouble of getting
> started with development on Gnome.

The question here is build...what?  Applications?  Or contribute to the
desktop itself?  These are quite independent things with potentially
quite different tools to use.

> Every time I start a new jhbuild build tree, it's a very long and
> painful process. And every full-tree update is a big risk.

Yeah, and there is still yet more we can do to jhbuild to make things
better here; the two biggest things are:

1) improving the sysdeps tooling see
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=691036 for an example case
where it works on OpenSUSE/Fedora, but fails on Debian due to confusion
over the package split

2) Maintaining autobuilders; see my other mail