[Sugar-devel] How everyone can help with 0.100

[Jerry Vonau]

On Sat, 2013-08-17 at 12:14 +0200, Daniel Narvaez wrote:
> On 17 August 2013 12:03, Daniel Narvaez <dwnarvaez at gmail.com> wrote:
>         On 17 August 2013 05:21, Jerry Vonau <jvonau at shaw.ca> wrote:
>         
>                 Adding in olpc-devel.
>                 
>                 On Sat, 2013-08-17 at 03:34 +0200, Daniel Narvaez
>                 wrote:
>                 > This is based on the last sugar-build configuration
>                 which supported
>                 > fedora 18. Note, I'm guessing a lot, you should give
>                 it a try before
>                 > settling on a plan.
>                 >
>                 > * webkitgtk
>                 >
>                 >
>                 >
>                 > which drags in
>                 >
>                 >
>                 > libsoup
>                 > glib
>                 > gobject-introspection
>                 > pygobject
>                 > dbus-python
>                 >
>                 
>                 
>                 Kind of need to know the exact versions of the above
>                 packages, olpc is
>                 carrying patched versions[1] of a couple of those
>                 packages, so we need
>                 to be careful here. Anybody want to chime in on what
>                 patches need to be
>                 present for the XOs?
>         
>         
>         I would take versions/specs from the Fedora 19 latest updates
>         and add the following patches
>         
>         
>         gobject-introspection:
>         
>         stringfix2.patch
>         str.patch
>         stringfix3.patch
>         
>         
>         
>         pygobject:
>         
>         Consolidate-signal-connection-code.patch
>         Optimize-connection-of-Python-implemented-signals.patch
>         Optimize-property-get-set-when-using-GObject.props.patch
>         Optimize-signal-lookup-in-gi-repository.patch
>         Simplify-registration-of-custom-types.patch
>         
> 
> 
> Alternatively, use the F20 versions/specs and don't add any patch. Not
> sure which is better... If the patches apply cleanly or can be
> trivially ported I'd rather use the F19  versions/specs, which is what
> we currently have in sugar-build too.
> 

Thank you for the very useful information and advice.

Jerry