[Sugar-devel] Testing streamlined sugar-jhbuild

[Jonas Smedegaard]

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On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 07:41:52PM +0200, Sascha Silbe wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 11:18:23AM -0700, Edward Cherlin wrote:
>
>>> As you probably all know, I do run a certain distribution different 
>>> from those emphasized above.  I do not, however, trust a complex 
>>> web-interacting script like jhbuild to run on my machine.
>> After the problems I have had before, I agree. Now I would only do 
>> such a thing in virtualization.
> I certainly agree that a sugar-jhbuild installation will hit a lot of 
> upstream bugs and thus can be quite hard (or sometimes even 
> impossible) to work with.
> But being afraid of it damaging the rest of the system is something 
> quite different. If you have any particular reason for not trusting 
> sugar-jhbuild, I'd very much like to know so I can fix it.

It is not sugar-jhbuild specifically.  It is the concept of running 
large pieces of unknown code.

If a lot of people allready runs exact same code, the risk of it 
exploding in my face is smaller.

sugar-jhbuild is just the top of the iceberg: it pulls a lot of external 
sources and invokes their commands.


  - Jonas

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