Re: [Builder] Builder-list Digest, Vol 14, Issue 1

[RoundDuck Man <roundduckman2 gmail com>]

I guess. Hopefully the condition changes since many other development programs (Godot, Geany, Atom, Emacs, etc) can be upgraded without needing xdg-apps or upgrading the GUI. Maybe this can be thrown in as a far future roadmap, or a sect of developers making a fork of a older Builder version?  It's because the state of an updated Gnome is horrible for distros like Ubuntu, because of the feature freeze blocking the use of a newer Gnome (and consequently Builder) version in the name of stability. Wish maybe the release pattern of Gnome (or Ubuntu) changed to fix this, with occasional LTS releases of the DE for LTS distros, like Ubuntu LTS and RHEL, so those versions of Gnome can have occasional bug fixes and minor improvements to polish up these releases. Of course though I've heard at least in the past that Gnome is undermanned, hopefully that gets fixed someday, instead of people caring just about the fancy "cloud." Oh and that web. It might be the wrong place to speak of most of this though and I maybe should directly contact the mainline Gnome devs instead of you all for a lot of Gnome stuff I said. They'll deal with my ramblings. ;)

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Today's Topics:

   1. any interests in bringing newer builds of Gnome Builder to
      older Gnome builds? (RoundDuck Man)
   2. Re: any interests in bringing newer builds of Gnome Builder
      to older Gnome builds? (Christian Hergert)


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Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 23:34:27 -0500
From: RoundDuck Man <roundduckman2 gmail com>
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Subject: [Builder] any interests in bringing newer builds of Gnome
        Builder to older Gnome builds?
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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.
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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 20:51:51 -0800
From: Christian Hergert <christian hergert me>
To: builder-list gnome org
Subject: Re: [Builder] any interests in bringing newer builds of Gnome
        Builder to older Gnome builds?
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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


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