Re: [gnome-love] Setting up a development environment

[Sindhu S <sindhus live in>]

Hi Mathieu and all,

I found that using GNOME on arch was a better experience than other distributions. I've done my share of distro hopping from RPM to DEB systems and I think Arch with its quick packagers and simple installation is recommended if you are comfortable with commandline. Arch repositories carry GNOME 3.10.1.

Apart from the python versioning problems (which was easily resolved with the script from their wiki page), I have had no issues setting up JHbuild on Arch.

Just thought I should let the list know that there are more options than Fedora or Ubuntu for using GNOME :)

On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 10:09 PM, Mathieu Stumpf <psychoslave culture-libre org> wrote:

Le 2013-11-04 17:35, Abhinav Jangda a écrit :

Hello Luiz,

GNOME has a very good tool for what you want, JHBuild. Its pretty
easy to install and use.

It depends what distribution you are using, then. As far as I'm concerned
I gived up the idea of installing a gnome dev environement on my debian
stable box, and I will probably install a fedora box when I have time.
Installing it in a VirtualBox may be a good idea.

Anyway, I would say that as a user you may order installation easiness like that:
0. it's already installed on your shiny new device
1. you just install it through the usual (package manager|appstore)/go to the right URL
2. you must make some manual configuration but you won't meet big difficulty since there's
   a bundle for your system which almost work out of the box
3. no particular integration for your system, welcome to hell

So far my experience with JHBuild scores 3.

Thanks,
Abhinav

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Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2013 11:27:23 -0500
From: luiz poleto gmail com
To: gnome-love gnome org
Subject: [gnome-love] Setting up a development environment

Hello all,

 I am trying to get started contributing with Gnome. First thing I
wanna do is set up a development environment where I can play around
without worrying about messing up with my current Gnome installation.

So, I thought about having it installed in VirtualBox. Is it
recommended? Are there any side effects on this approach?
If the above is not the ideal scenario, what would be the best approach?

Thanks,
Luiz
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