Re: GNOME Build situation and BuildStream

[Sébastien Wilmet <swilmet gnome org>]

On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 11:21:37PM +0900, Tristan Van Berkom wrote:
> On Thu, 2017-04-27 at 14:41 +0200, Sébastien Wilmet wrote:
> [...]
> > With jhbuild, when we enter into a jhbuild shell we are still in the
> > same directory, usually inside the git repository. With builddir ==
> > srcdir we have all the files that we can directly open with our
> > preferred text editor. When we open a new terminal tab, we are in the
> > same directory where we are able to 1) do git commands 2) building
> > (with
> > recursive make) 3) launching executables 4) editing files, etc.
> >
> > With BuildStream, will it be similar?

[...]

> So, this is a little bit fiddly compared to working entirely within one
> build sandbox, only because you really need to exit and enter a sandbox
> environment when you want to try something out, otherwise it's snappy
> (and maybe a convenience command to say "build + shell" in one go could
> reduce a bit of typing).
>
> On the bright side, you never ever trust your host environment for
> anything, except for a display server and session bus in the case that
> you use `bst shell` to run things.

OK, thanks for your detailed explanation.

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Sébastien