Re: Beginner advice

Sorry, I didn't reply to all :-D

Maybe you can just git clone a module you wish to hack on. However I
consider myself a very beginner, and I successfully jhbuild'd gnome on
Fedora18 without any problem.

Sciamp
Il giorno 04/mar/2013 10:34, "Hashem" <[email protected]> ha scritto:

> Yes jhbuild is pretty terrible for newcomers, but what better way is
> there to work on in-development code?
>
> On 03/04/2013 03:47 AM, Michael Hasselmann wrote:
> > On Sun, 2013-03-03 at 10:50 +0100, Sebastian Geiger wrote:
> >> You can take a look at git.gnome.org and pick a module there. Since we
> dont know what you are interested in its difficult to suggest a module. You
> could take a look at Gtk+ or glib if you are interested in improving the
> core plattform. Or look at gnome-shell, gnome-panel, mutter or metacity if
> you want to work on the frontend.
> >>
> >> The gnome games might be a good start too.
> >>
> >> For a quick start you should become familiar with jhbuild so you can
> build and run the modules.
> > Could we perhaps stop giving beginners the advice to use jhbuild? It's a
> > complex tool and things often break, which can be frustrating. On a
> > modern enough & well maintained distro, there is usually no need for
> > jhbuild if you only want to hack on some projects (and not the whole
> > Gnome stack).
> >
> > ciao Michael
> >
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