Re: dev environment for starters

[Luis Villa <louie ximian com>]

On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 19:20, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:
> I tend to use the CVS HEAD versions as my desktop.  It's been stable enough
> to use everyday.  That is to say that you can probbaly live with it.  The
> biggest I've had recently was gnome-panel crashing/leaking memory.  But
> generally it's quite tolerable.  Secondly, the bugs are there and it gives
> me the motivation to either investigate, pester someone about it, or write a
> bug report or if I'm feeling really frustrated whine like all heck. ;)
> (sometimes the whine comes first. )

Remember, a stated goal of the New And Improved GNOME is that HEAD is
always buildable and usable. That's made 2.2 a (mostly) pretty sane
experience :) Hopefully we'll be able to keep that up in 2.4, while
kicking up the level of coding a bit.

Luis

> 
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 06:08:38PM -0500, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 06:18:02PM -0500, Neil Weisenfeld wrote:
> > > 
> > > Here's the rub: I *live* in GNOME2.  Not in the Tron sense, but it's my
> > > daily desktop environment.  Is it maybe wise to install *releases* for
> > > general consumption and have a separate build area that's usually
> > > up-to-date w/ CVS HEAD for development?  Or do people tend to live daily
> > > w/ whatever is committed?
> > > 
> > 
> > What I would generally do is build with jhbuild or garnome or
> > whatever; they install somewhere out of the normal location. Then keep
> > known-working RPMs/debs in /usr. Whenever you build the bleeding edge
> > stuff, log into it, if it's totally hosed then log out and revert to
> > using your system GNOME for that day.
> > 
> > Havoc
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