[Sugar-devel] jhbuild obsoleted itself:)

[Michael Stone]

Mikus,

An idea that I've been working on for the last few days (which is
certainly compatible with proxies) is to use recent distro packages to
build a chroot from which to test sugar.

I've (clumsily) described my preliminary procedures in
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/DevelopmentTeam/Chroot. (Unfortunately,
there's a gconf infelicity in the rawhide chroot that prevents sugar
from successfully launching; however, things work nicely in the debian
sid chroot.)

Regards,

Michael

P.S. - It should even be possible to use Linux' new network namespaces
feature to set up arbitrary network configurations for efficient
network testing -- even between multiple versions of sugar -- on a
single machine!

On 1/15/09, Mikus Grinbergs <mikus at bga.com> 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, it makes sense to reduce the
>> emphasis of jhbuild as a method for delivering Sugar to end-users.
>
> I am not currently a git user because git appears to not support a
> proxy (and to try to bypass that proxy I would need rewiring the
> place).  But jhbuild looks like the principal alternative to my
> having to wait for someone to supply me with a binary for my XO.
>
> I am concerned that 1cc is now focusing on Windows (for instance,
> see what kind of tickets have recently been posted to laptop.org
> trac).  Should binaries (with updated Sugar content) for the XO-1
> platform cease to be available, would the jhbuild environment you
> envision be able to create a build for the XO-1 platform ?
>
> mikus
>
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