[Sugar-devel] [sugar-build] Is webkitgtk becoming a barrier?

[Walter Bender]

I'd go for options 2 and 3 (just adding a comment in the build process
warning people that building webkigtk take a *long* time. So those who
want to build it themselves will know to be patient.

-walter

On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 7:41 AM, Daniel Narvaez <dwnarvaez at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> It seems like building webkitgtk is a bit of a pain for many people. I would
> like people feedback on how bad of an obstacle it really is and about a
> couple of possible solutions:
>
> 1 Have buildbot generate snapshots of the base system dependencies which
> most people are unlikely to want to modify anyway and upload those. It would
> probably be a system.img file which you would put in your sugar-build
> directory. With that file present, the external sugar dependencies would not
> be downloaded and built at all.
>
> 2 Officially support Fedora 19, disable the webkitgtk build there and
> suggest people for which building webkigtk is too much to use Fedora19.
>
> Thoughts? Would you use 1/2 if it was available?
>
> --
> Daniel Narvaez
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