Re: Notifications for build & release issues: gnome-control-center
- From: Joachim Noreiko <jnoreiko yahoo com>
- To: Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>, Davyd Madeley <davyd madeley id au>
- Cc: GNOME Documentation <gnome-doc-list gnome org>, svu gnome org, Gnome Desktop Development List <desktop-devel-list gnome org>, gnomecc-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: Notifications for build & release issues: gnome-control-center
- Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 13:07:54 +0100 (BST)
--- Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-10-21 at 12:10 +0800, Davyd Madeley
> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-10-20 at 22:09 +0100, Thomas Wood
> wrote:
> >
> > > Do we currently have a dependency and module
> documentation on-line
> > > somewhere? I have had several people ask me
> about such information (or
> > > moan about the lack of). It would be good to
> have a build guide for ISVs
> > > at the very least. GNOME is becoming more and
> more difficult to build
> > > and package because of the lack of this type of
> documentation (these are
> > > comments I've had from both individuals and
> people involved in small
> > > distributions). If it is available somewhere, we
> need better publicise
> > > it better.
> >
> > In many respects, jhbuild _is_ the dependency tree
> for building GNOME. A
> > mode like `jhbuild list` will give you a list of
> packages you need to
> > build. It would be easily possible to put the
> output of this command on
> > a webpage if people thought they needed that.
>
> jhbuild dot meta-gnome-desktop >
> jhbuild_gnome_desktop.dot
> dot jhbuild_gnome_desktop.dot -Tpng >
> jhbuild_dot_gnome_desktop.png
>
> is also fun:
> http://www.gtkmm.org/jhbuild_dot_gnome_desktop.png
It doesn't generate an SVG that can be cleaned up a
bit by hand and despaghettified?
> (But I also think a build order plus a list of
> external dependencies
> should be enough.)
Perhaps someone would care to add an item to the list
of desired developer documents: http://live.gnome.org/DeveloperGuides
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