Re: [evince] Broken link in evince developer page

[Juanjo Marín <juanjomarin96 yahoo es>]

----- Mensaje original -----
> De: Jakob Voss <Jakob Voss gbv de>
> Para: evince-list gnome org
> CC: 
> Enviado: Domingo 10 de junio de 2012 12:48
> Asunto: [evince] Broken link in evince developer page
> 
> Hi,
> 
> If someone is looking for how to contribute or to view what's going in
> in Evince development, he/she is directed to
> http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/evince/ at
> http://projects.gnome.org/evince/developing.html This link should be
> changed to http://git.gnome.org/browse/evince/. The entire page seems to
> be outdated. If this is the case, please remove it entirely instead of
> confusing people by having multiple pages for the same purpose.
> 
> For instance http://projects.gnome.org/evince/testing.html contains
> information how to get the latest version of evince, but there is no
> such information at https://live.gnome.org/Evince/Testing. So what's the
> current page?
> 

Hi Jakob,

I removed http://projects.gnome.org/evince/developing.html and other
unused pages. AFAIK these pages were not linked.

I'll try to update more in the wiki pages in live.gnome.org, but any 
volunteer is free to help to do this :-)


> By the way I failed to install the newest version of evince in Ubuntu
> 12.04 this way:
> 
> $ sudo aptitude install gnome-common gtk-doc-tools
> 
> $ git clone git://git.gnome.org/evince
> $ cd evince
> $ git checkout 3.5.2
> $ ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr/local
> 
> It would help to list the required debian packages to build evince, such
> as gnome-common etc. Maybe this is trivial if you are already into
> developing gnome, but for a less experienced user it should be easier to
> just install a specific version of evince for testing.


with 'apt-get build-dep evince' you can get the list of packages necessary
to build evince.

the problem comes when you need some packages newer than the ones
installed in your system. I think that updating the versions installed in your
system with compiled versions by yourself is not a good idea because 
you can turn your system unstable, so you need a way to have several 
versions of a library in your system. I use jhbuild for that.

I use 'jhbuild buildone evince' to get evince compiled. For example for
evince 3.5.2 you need a new version of poppler, so I use 'jhbuild buildone
poppler'. There a lot other useful jhbuild commands like shell and run.

I hope this helps,

   -- Juanjo Marin