[release-notes/gnome-3-2] Write jhbuild improvements section



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+ &gtkversion; 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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