Re: Preferred method to set up your development environment

[Martin Swientek <lists swientek org>]

Am Montag, den 05.03.2007, 10:45 +0100 schrieb Alexander Larsson:
> On Sat, 2007-03-03 at 17:41 +0100, Martin Swientek wrote:
> > Hallo,
> > 
> > I've got a problem to connect to a webdav account using nautilus. I want
> > to take this as an opportunity to start digging into the code and trying
> > to find out what's going wrong. And maybe I can contribute something to
> > the Gnome development as I've enjoyed using Gnome for some time now.
> > 
> > To start I've managed to build and run the latest Nautilus from svn in
> > my stable Gnome 2.16.2 environment on Gentoo. I can imagine that this
> > approach may lead to some problems tracking the needed dependencies. For
> > example, the Nautilus I've build now uses all the stable libs from my
> > distribution. So If I want to track down my webdav problem, I'll also
> > have to build gnome-vfs from svn and make sure Nautilus uses this
> > instead, and so on.
> > 
> > So I'm wondering, what's your preferred method to setup your development
> > environment? Do you use a stable Gnome system delivered and maintained
> > by your distribution like I did? Or do you use a complete Gnome
> > development version like 2.17.xx?
> 
> I think there are three main approaches:
> * Use jhbuild (or something like it) to build a complete copy of Gnome
> in a separate prefix, and use that
> * Run an unstable distro that tracks the latest gnome
> * "wing it" and install just the package you work on and what new
> requirements it needs manually
> 
> The last version is the most risky as it can mess up your system a bit
> and it requires some knowledge of the gnome depenencies. 
> 
> I personally use jhbuild.
> 
> For the specific case of nautilus 2.18 you might be able to run it
> without so much dependencies, because there aren't a lot of changes from
> 2.16 and 2.18.

Thanks for your replies and suggestions.
I think I'll go for the jhbuild method.

Best regards,
Martin Swientek