[Sugar-devel] Simplifying sugar-jhbuild

[Bert Freudenberg]

On 21.05.2009, at 01:03, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:

> On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 21:10, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org>  
> wrote:
>> Today I've kick-started a newbie on building Sugar to fix a small bug
>> and submit his first patch.
>>
>> It was just painful.  jhbuild has plenty of rough corners and we  
>> could
>> easily make things easier with a few changes:
>> [...]
>> 3) Let's move etoys away from the base set of components: the  
>> repository
>> is often offline, building it breaks very often, and it takes a lot  
>> of
>> time.  You don't need it in order to test Sugar, the same way you  
>> don't
>> need TamTam and TurtleArt.
>
> I guess this makes sense, though would be good to hear people who hack
> on eToys in Sugar.


I think the "breaks very often" assertion is unqualified. But sure,  
removing Etoys from the default build set should be fine.

- Bert -