Re: New

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Sun, 2007-11-25 at 14:07 +0100, perriman wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm new in the list. I like Glom and I want to help you with Glom fixing
> bugs or implementing some features. First, I want to set all my
> development environment in the better way.
>
> I have Ubuntu 7.10 and I have downloaded the source code (gda, bakery
> etc) from subversion and compile it without problems.
>
> Perhaps is better install it with jhbuild instead downloading packages
> manually. The problems is that jhbuild download a lot of packages that I
> already have. If you think the better way is jhbuild, I will use it.

jhbuild is by far the best way to work with the Glom sources, (and the
sources of dependencies, which we also need to change sometimes), I
think. It just takes some time to set it up.

> I will start studying a bit the source code and the I will try to fix
> the bug http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=499459

That would be really great. I doubt that it's anything very complicated.

> If you have some ideas, documentation etc. that can help me, are
> welcome.

Try using jhbuild and ask here or on gnome-love for help if you get
stuck.

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