[release-notes/gnome-3-2] Write jhbuild improvements section
- From: Andre Klapper <aklapper src gnome org>
- To: commits-list gnome org
- Cc:
- Subject: [release-notes/gnome-3-2] Write jhbuild improvements section
- Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2011 19:56:27 +0000 (UTC)
commit 5ec049717a6bed4b0f45edc24646cca238c4efb0
Author: Andre Klapper <a9016009 gmx de>
Date: Sun Sep 4 20:55:15 2011 +0200
Write jhbuild improvements section
help/C/rndevelopers.xml | 24 +++++++++++++++---------
1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/help/C/rndevelopers.xml b/help/C/rndevelopers.xml
index 64c983e..ae97105 100644
--- a/help/C/rndevelopers.xml
+++ b/help/C/rndevelopers.xml
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
<title>What's New for Developers</title>
<para>
The following changes are important for developers using the GNOME
- &gnomeversion; developer platform. If you're not interested in
+ &gnomeversion; developer platform. If you are not interested in
changes for developers, you can skip
forward to <xref linkend="rni18"/>.
</para>
@@ -23,6 +23,10 @@
cross-platform applications.
</para>
+ <para>
+ For general information on developing with GNOME please visit the <ulink url="http://developer.gnome.org/">GNOME Developer Center</ulink>.
+ </para>
+
<sect2 id="glib">
<title>Glib &glibversion;</title>
<para>
@@ -66,8 +70,6 @@
of GNOME. GTK+ >kversion; includes new features for developers, as
well as extensive bug fixing.
</para>
- <para>GTK+ has also seen a number of other improvements, including:
- </para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>
Entries can contain 'hints' now, see gtk_entry_set_placeholder_text()
@@ -114,15 +116,23 @@ TODO: GTK performance improvements?: http://blogs.gnome.org/otte/2011/03/30/the-
<application>GConf</application> now uses <application>D-Bus</application> by default and hence does not require <application>ORBit2</application> anymore. As a consequence, the deprecated libraries <application>ORBit2</application> and <application>libIDL</application> have been removed from GNOME.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
- TODO: Which apps have converted from gconf to GSettings in 3.1?
+ TODO: Which apps have converted from gconf to GSettings in 3.1? accerciser,
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="jhbuild">
<title>Easier Compiling of GNOME With Jhbuild</title>
+ <!-- from https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2011-July/msg00091.html -->
<para>
- TODO: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2011-July/msg00091.html
+ GNOME's build tool <application><ulink url="http://developer.gnome.org/jhbuild/">Jhbuild</ulink></application>
+ does not build a module anymore if the version that is already
+ installed on your system is recent enough. This is defined by the key
+ <command>partial_build</command> that is set by default. The command
+ <command>jhbuild sysdeps</command> lists the modules that are going to
+ be build. If you start to build GNOME from scratch with a recent
+ distribution, this can easily drop 50 modules from the list of modules
+ to compile.
</para>
</sect2>
@@ -149,9 +159,5 @@ TODO: Documentation tools: Yelp: http://blogs.gnome.org/shaunm/2011/04/29/mallar
</itemizedlist>
</sect2>
- <para>
- For general information on developing with GNOME please visit the <ulink url="http://developer.gnome.org/">GNOME Developer Center</ulink>.
- </para>
-
</sect1>
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