Re: [gnome-love] Setting up a development environment

[Luiz Poleto <luiz poleto gmail com>]

I did see the JHBuild tool but wasn't really sure how it worked. Now that you guys pointed it out, I read the entire page again and realized that I missed this paragraph in the first time:

"JHBuild enables you to run Gnome in a sandbox environment and doesn't install it globally on your system, so there is no need to run Gnome inside a virtual machine."

Shame on me! Shame on me! :-)

Thanks, guys!

Luiz

On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 11:35 AM, Hashem Nasarat <hnasarat gmail com> wrote:

Thanks for your interest in contributing to GNOME!

I only have time right now for a brief reply, but "developing without
messing up current installation" is the whole point of GNOME's jhbuild tool.

Here's a short tutorial on how to get started using it.
https://wiki.gnome.org/GnomeLove/BuildGnome

Please don't hesitate to ask for help if you come across any issues.

-Hashem

On 11/04/2013 11:27 AM, Luiz Poleto wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I am trying to get started contributing with Gnome. First thing I wanna
> do is set up a development environment where I can play around without
> worrying about messing up with my current Gnome installation.
>
> So, I thought about having it installed in VirtualBox. Is it
> recommended? Are there any side effects on this approach?
> If the above is not the ideal scenario, what would be the best approach?
>
> Thanks,
> Luiz
>
>

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