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



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.



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