Re: systemd as external dependency

[Luis Medinas <lmedinas gnome org>]

2011/5/19 Olav Vitters <olav vitters nl>:
> On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 11:41:08AM +0200, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
>> Le jeudi 19 mai 2011 à 10:53 +0200, Olav Vitters a écrit :
>> > That is perfectly valid advice. You need various things in your
>> > distribution to help GNOME development. I would not advise anyone to
>> > use Ubuntu anymore when they want to get involved with GNOME.
>
>> Could you give some details on what is the issue with running Ubuntu and
>> contributing to GNOME? Several active GNOME contributors are running
>
> I've seen a lot of people on IRC and during the 3.0 party saying the 3.0
> PPA killed their Ubuntu. Or that their had a lot of difficulty to get a
> jhbuild going.
>
> I cannot help them. And I noticed a lot of these issues going
> unanswered. So my conclusion is that it is better to suggest something
> else.
>
>> Ubuntu, do you means they are not welcome to contribute to GNOME because
>> of the distribution they decided to use?
>
> No, not at all what I meant. That would be really really bad.
>
> Just that if someone asks on #gnome which distribution to start his
> jhbuild on, I'd make clear that Ubuntu would mean a lot of difficulties.
>

Indeed i noticed some problems using jhbuild on ubuntu 11.04 i guess
it's libtool broken, because
lot's of modules fails due *.la files. I'm not the only one seeing
this issue [1]

Luis

1 - http://osdir.com/ml/gnome-shell-list/2011-04/msg00026.html