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

[Daniel Narvaez]

We are now officially supporting Fedora 19.

Thanks to William Orr for the help with this.


On 19 May 2013 13:49, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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Daniel Narvaez
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