Re: Recompiling libgnome-shell.so

[Simon McVittie <simon mcvittie collabora co uk>]

On Mon, 2016-10-03 at 15:15 +0200, Bob Andrew wrote:
> I had been hoping glib-compile-resources could provide a shorter way
> than going through the whole compiling process. Now I wonder what is
> the interest of extracting resource files through gresource, except
> maybe not having to download the whole source?

Not having to download the whole source is basically the only purpose
of the technique mentioned in those blog posts.

(It also ensures you get the JavaScript or other resources that
actually correspond to the version you have installed - which is
hopefully the one that your distribution recommends and has done its
own QA on - and not some earlier or later version. But if you've
downloaded the whole source, then you have everything you need for an
internally-consistent build anyway, whether it matches your
distribution's recommendation or not.)

    S