Re: [Banshee-List] gtk3 branch testing

[Bertrand Lorentz <bertrand lorentz gmail com>]

Hi,

Thanks for starting the discussion about this, I was just thinking
about doing it.
Just a few quick comments below, I'll get more into the issue in a later e-mail.

On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 2:32 PM, olivier dufour <olivier duff gmail com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> We have raise a important step in gtk3 branch of banshee. It become usable
> thanks to scroll-bar works now with the last git master of GTK#.
> All graphical bugs have been removed thanks to a big work of Bertrand.

I'm still working on the SearchEntry widget, I hope to get that
committed tonight or tomorrow.

> But now we need test. [snip] if some users
> can test it and do a complete feedback about test to track any regression on
> mailing list it can be usefull to fix all remaining bugs before merge it to
> main (which is not plan for now to be christal clear).
>
> In order to test you need a mono parallel environment. To do that you can
> use script from there
> : https://github.com/nathanb/iws-snippets/tree/master/mono-install-scripts
> or done it manually with this
> guid http://www.mono-project.com/Parallel_Mono_Environments

A parallel mono is not necessary (I don't have one), if the version of
mono on your system is recent enough (gtk# requires mono 2.8 or
above).
All of the new library versions needed can be installed alongside
previous versions. Yay for assembly versionning !

> After that, you need to build the last gtk# version from git master.
> Maybe you will need few other library that you can found
> on https://github.com/mono
> So build all and build banshee gtk3 branch.

The "./configure" step for Banshee should check that all the right
versions of the dependencies are present. If it doesn't and the build
fails later, please do tell us about it (see below).

> I know that some good guy as David will do so but more people we have to
> test, less regression we will face later.
> Bertrand will said when we have to open bug for gtk3 branch bug but , I
> repeat, not for now. It is just to have more people who test to avoid
> regression with the big merge.

Specific bugs in our gtk3 branch can already go to bugzilla, just make
sure you mention gtk3 in the bug title. And please also make sure that
you are reasonably confident about how you've built Banshee and its
dependencies.
This mailing-list goes out to hundreds of people, and it's not the
best way to keep track of bugs. ;)

-- 
Bertrand Lorentz