Re: How long?

[Frank Solensky <frank solensky org>]

On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 19:56 +0100, guenther wrote:
> Hmm, 3 days (assuming uninterrupted building) seems a little bit long.
> However, the most important question is: What are you building exactly?
> Did you start the build in desktop/, or are you building *everything*
> starting in the GARNOME build root dir?

The build started from "desktop/".
> 
> Anyway, after you finished Evolution, you definitely got the lions share
> done. All of the really heavy weight apps and libs have been built by
> then, almost all dependencies as well -- the remainder in desktop/ is
> like "half the desktop packages", but that doesn't take build time nor
> deps into account. Finishing what's left should take *considerably* less
> time than you spent already.

Great, thanks!

> > Are these estimates still accurate?  Is there something else I can do so
> > that my build finishes before 2.17.6 is released?
> 
> The next release is due Wed -- you definitely should be done by then. ;)
> 
> Btw, it will be called 2.17.90 or 2.18.0 Beta 1.

Oh, nuts!  I've got some code that's been waiting months for artwork and
was about to change my stuff to allow for it to not be available yet..
Guess it'll have to wait for 2.20.