---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Daniel Narvaez Date: Wednesday, 4 July 2012 Subject: Update on sugar-build To: Ajay Garg <<a href="mailto:ajaygargnsit@gmail.com">ajaygargnsit@gmail.com</a>> On 4 July 2012 15:29, Ajay Garg <<a href="javascript:;" onclick="_e(event, 'cvml', 'ajaygargnsit@gmail.com')">ajaygargnsit@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > Hi Daniel. > > Is sugar-build an alternative to sugar-jhbuild? In short it's an alternative that does less but does it reliably out of the box (I want it to be usable by people with no building-from-source experience). Or that's the intent at least, it will have to prove itself. More in detail. It does a lot less: * It supports only the latest version of distributions. * It supports only distributions that provides all the required external dependencies. * It builds only external packages if they are required by master but are too new to be packaged by distributions. * It builds only latest master of sugar, it doesn't try to support old versions. All of these are essential to guarantee reliability in my opinion. It does a few things more, that I consider important: * Constantly buildboted with basic UI tests (helps reliability) * Fully logged (helps reliabilty by allowing to submit good bug reports) * Run in a full X server (allows dogfooding) * Makes it easy to submit patches -- Daniel Narvaez