Re: more gnome 2 proposal
- From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs eazel com>
- To: Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>
- Cc: Chema Celorio <chema ximian com>, gnome-hackers gnome org
- Subject: Re: more gnome 2 proposal
- Date: 11 Mar 2001 12:23:20 -0800
Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com> writes:
> Chema Celorio <chema ximian com> writes:
> > However a bigger library is indeed easier to build (from my experience)
> > so we need to find a way to fix this. The scenario that itp brought up
> > is a _daily_ royal pain for hackers and to-be-hackers.
> >
>
> My proposal is that we generalize Eazel's cvs-checkout-and-build
> script, and have Tinderbox checking it for function at all times. This
> gives us a canonical location to keep track of which branches,
> etc. are supposed to be used, also. So to build GNOME you'd just grab
> this script out of CVS run it, it would do cvs updates as appropriate
> and so on.
>
> Suggest writing the script in a real language not /bin/sh so that it's
> maintainable and can do things like read config files.
It's actually done part in shell and part in C; it also depends on
shell aliases. It may well end up much more sane if done all in
Python or the like, though.
>
> This should be a step in the "work plan" in our proposal, between "set
> up branches" and "set up tinderbox."
I really like that idea, although I think it can go in parallel with
setting up tinderbox, or afterwards.
- Maciej
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