Re: Release team now using gnome-build-meta repository, not JHBuild

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Mon, 2018-01-22 at 07:34 -0600, mcatanzaro gnome org wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 7:25 AM, mcatanzaro gnome org wrote:
> > Were you actually using JHBuild to run integrated system
> > components 
> > (gnome-shell, gnome-session)? If so, how? I was not aware that
> > that 
> > was even possible nowadays.
> >
> > When developing these components,
>
> Sorry, trying again....
>
> When developing components like gnome-shell and gnome-session, I've 
> found myself working in a VM and installing directly into /usr/bin. 
> It's the only way I'm aware of that works. (You can try /usr/local,
> but 
> then you have to hack executable paths in several projects....)
>
> Since it was already not possible to run these components with
> JHBuild, 

It was. You'd build close to the whole desktop, and end up with a
jhbuild session file you'd link in to a system directory (once). From
then on, you'd have a "jhbuild session" available as an option in gdm.

> this does not seem like a regression to me. Tristan mentioned the 
> future goal is to create a VM image, but one step at a time.
>
> If you are aware of some way that you can successfully run gnome-
> shell 
> or gnome-session or gdm or similar components using JHBuild, I would 
> love to know! gnome-shell used to be possible using 'jhbuild build 
> gnome-shell' and 'jhbuild run gnome-shell -r', but the last time
> that 
> worked for me was many years ago.

"When you still used X11". That worked when the shell wasn't also the
display server.

>  Even trying different combinations of 
> undocumented args like --nested and --wayland, I've yet to see it
> work 
> in recent times.