[Sugar-devel] jhbuild obsoleted itself:)

[Martin Dengler]

On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 05:15:53PM -0800, Edward Cherlin wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 1:15 PM, David Farning <dfarning at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> > I have just gone through the wiki and deleted the
> > developmentteam/jhbuild/* pages:)
> >
> > These pages were created in around June of 2008 when jhbuild was the
> > only method for running Sugar on non-XO platforms.  Now that we have
> > packages for several distributions and will be using the distributions
> > as our primary means of delivery,
> 
> But we cannot do that today.

David's "will be using" seems pretty consistent with your statement.

> The Activity packages that exist have serious bugs, and most .xo
> bundles simply will not run on these other platforms in the packaged
> Sugar environments. Please put those pages back.

I fail to see how those pages will help someone who has a problem with
their distro's packages.  As pointed out, they are/were out-of-date
and useless to people not willing to a) install a load of packages; 2)
do a lot of git clones; d) understand a lot about installing a new
bundle in a sugar-jhbuild directory tree.

The solution is better packages, IMHO.  But then again, I've neither
made any packages nor updated the jhbuild wiki pages recently, so
nobody should really listen to me.

> We need as much information as possible about how jhbuild
> has been put on Ubuntu and other distros, in order to support building
> it on yet more distros.

The jhbuild pages I thought we were talking about were just about
installing jhbuild, not packaging sugar (which is different than "how
jhbuild has been put on . . . distros").

Martin
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