Re: [Builder] any interests in bringing newer builds of Gnome Builder to older Gnome builds?

[Christian Hergert <christian hergert me>]

On 02/16/2016 08:34 PM, RoundDuck Man wrote:
> Is there going to be any backporting of features of future versions of
> builder to older versions like 3.16.x? Some people like Ubuntu users
> would love to use the newest features without upgrading Gnome, 
> especially "LTS versions of any distro" users.


That would be an enormous amount of work, and at best it would only
support a single distro. The best way for us to handle this sort of
use-case going forward is with Xdg-App.

I imagine there will be a more "official" way to do this after 3.20 is
out the door, but see Alex's post on Xdg-App for some guidance.


https://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2016/02/11/testing-unstable-gnome-using-xdg-app/

You will want to install org.gnome.Sdk instead of org.gnome.Platform,
and org.gnome.Builder instead of org.gnome.Weather.

Cheers!

-- Christian