[Sugar-devel] Simplifying sugar-jhbuild

[Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero]

On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 6:31 AM, Bastien <bastienguerry at googlemail.com>wrote:

> +1 on the overall.
>
> Building Sugar from source should be as easy as:
>
> ,----
> | ~$ git://git.sugarlabs.org/sugar-core/mainline.git
> | ~$ ./configure
> | ~$ make
> | ~$ sudo make install
> `----
>
> (Sidenote: I guess it's a gitorious thingy, but mainline.git is a pretty
> stupid name for a git repo. It forces the user to create folders by hand
> when pulling several projects.  Why not sugar-core.git?)
>

You can use something like..

git clone git://git.sugarlabs.org/project/mainline.git project


to avoid creating folders by hand.



> I would also advocate having sugar-jhbuild reduced to sugar-core, where
> the only activity is the Journal.  Other activities should be installed
> separately, either one by one or by bundle.
>
> Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org> writes:
>
> > Today I've kick-started a newbie on building Sugar to fix a small bug
> > and submit his first patch.
> >
> > It was just painful.  jhbuild has plenty of rough corners and we could
> > easily make things easier with a few changes:
> >
> > 1) Stop checking out random unstable versions of external projects.
> > They break very often, and we cannot fix them.  Let's instead upgrade
> > manually every once in a while after some testing.
> >
> > 2) Do not build C modules that is already available (and recent enough)
> > in popular distros.  Specifically: abiword, matchbox, hippocanvas...
> >
> > 3) Let's move etoys away from the base set of components: the repository
> > is often offline, building it breaks very often, and it takes a lot of
> > time.  You don't need it in order to test Sugar, the same way you don't
> > need TamTam and TurtleArt.
> >
> > 4) We could check for prerequisites before starting the build.  Some
> > configure scripts are stupid enough to fail tests silently and proceed
> > anyway using "no" as a command name in make :-)
> >
> > If there's consensus on implementing one or more of these points, I can
> > provide patches (or just go on and commit them).
>
> --
>  Bastien
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