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

[Daniel Narvaez]

On 20 May 2013 10:32, <lionel at olpc-france.org> wrote:

>
> Hi all,
>
> Just to give my feeling about this point. Because my PC is under Windows
> for
> professional reasons, I'm using sugar-build from a VirtualBox VM.
> I've recently recreated my sugar-build VM. I choose an Ubuntu 13.04 VM
> because no Fedora 18 pre-installed VM is available from now and I have no
> time to re installed it from scratch.
> In a VM, webkitgtk take more than 3 hours to build, so I must let my
> computer powered and wait for the end of the task. It's a long time BTW
> it's
> a one-time only operation. So it doesn't mind.
>
> I think that allowing developers to easily contribute is very important.
> Thanks to the current process, it's pretty easy to start your contribution
> to Sugar:
>

I totally agree that reliability and easiness of the process is the key
here. If we can make it also faster while keeping those cool, otherwise, as
you say, it's a one-time only operation...
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