Re: GNOME on VMware (was : admiting to our flaws)

[karderio <karderio gmail com>]

Hi :o)

There are in fact plans to provide packages for GNOME as part of the
BuildBrigade :

http://live.gnome.org/BuildBrigade

I find this very cool.

Love, Karderio

On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 18:19 +0200, karderio wrote:
> Hi :o)
> 
> [cut, snip wazoo ; several people I reply to]
> 
> 
> > > Karderio couldn't replicate the Ataxx bug on his own
> > > computer, and
> > > mentioned that it could be specific to my
> > > distribution. 
> > 
> > The Ataxx developer has added a note to the wiki page
> > to say that the bug has been fixed for the next
> > version.
> > Hooray for docs on the wiki!
> 
> Cool, I'll start hacking on scripts to automate changing docs on the
> wiki somewhat.
> 
> > I have noticed
> > > that the screenshot of Ataxx on the GNOME Live wiki
> > > (apparently added
> > > yesterday) shows at least one feature that isn't in
> > > the version that I
> > > used while writing the documentation. Should I get
> > > the latest version
> > > from cvs and update the documentation accordingly as
> > > I am rewriting it
> > > in docbook format?
> > 
> > If you're comfortable compiling an app yourself, sure.
> > However, this is not something that's expected of
> > documentation writers (I've tried compiling, failed,
> > and given up).
> 
> Hmm, the discussion about distributing fresh unstable builds seemed to
> fetter away last time I believe...
> 
> Is somebody could give me a place on an FTP server to stick vmware
> images, I'd be happy to build GNOME every 2.odd.x release. I could put a
> page about downloading and installing these and vmware on the wiki also.
> 
> I see this being built on Ubuntu, for ease and so they can get bug
> reports also. A better solution may be to use a distribution where you
> can choose *only* the components needed, such as gentoo or LFS, but I
> see this as being too time consuming...
> 
> Conditional on getting Garnome to build however, I find it a bit of a
> pain...
> 
> Love, Karderio