Re: [gnome-love] Help to "jhbuild" gnome on Debian Wheezy

[Hashem Nasarat <hnasarat gmail com>]

On 10/09/2013 10:52 AM, Mathieu Stumpf wrote:
> Thank you for the link. It looks like this method require Boxes >=3.10,
> while Debian, even in testing[1] only providve 3.8.4-1.
You don't need Boxes (though it'd probably be easiest) -- I think you
can use virt-manager as well. They both share the libvirt QEMU/KVM backend.
> So it looks like a somewhat stable Debian environement and a GNOME
> development environement are are currently mutually exclusvie. 
Testing (although not Stable) is pretty stable. Debian Stable is geared
toward production rather than development by nature. Upgrading to
Testing would probably be a good compromise between ease-of-development
and quick fix.
Check http://www.0d.be/debian/debian-gnome-3.8-status.html
and
http://www.0d.be/debian/debian-gnome-3.10-status.html
I guess I
> then will waste less time installing an other distro. I think most GNOME
> dev use Fedora, don't they? Is there a particular distro/configuration
> that you would recommand to me, knowing that I would like both a stable
> environement and a way to involve in GNOME development?
Most use Fedora, but I'd recommend upgrading to Testing, and if things
don't work then try a different distro.
> http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=boxes&searchon=names&suite=testing&section=all
>
>
> Le 2013-10-08 19:43, Hashem Nasarat a écrit :
> > On 10/08/2013 02:59 AM, Mathieu Stumpf wrote:
> > > Thank you I'll look at your links that as soon as possible. I'm happy
> > > with Wheezy
> > > as a stable environement on which I don't spend time with daily upgrade
> > > adventures
> > > I enjoyed while using Archlinux. Spending time in configuration and
> > > discorvering
> > > engine under the hood is fine, but I also need a stable environement
> > > where I can
> > > concentrate my daily works without upgrade disturbances. That's why I
> > > said may be
> > > I should look at a VM option. Does GNOME provide a out of the box VM for
> > > developers?
> > > That would enable one to just follow the fine tutorial before she begin
> > > to code
> > > her own project that will work in the last release environement
> >
> > Look up gnome continuous. Here's how andreasn, who does web and design
> > stuff, uses it.
> >
> > https://wiki.gnome.org/AndreasNilsson/PathOfLeastResistance
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