[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Jhbuild + Maemo

[From: Carlos.Guerreiro at nokia.com]

Hi,

> On Fri, 2006-03-31 at 22:49 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
> > I created a .modules file for jhbuild and got it working. 
> Here's some
> > help on using it:
> > http://maemo.org/maemowiki/MaemoWithJhbuild%7cBuilding
> > 
> > This saves me a lot of time and fiddling when I need to 
> write a patch
> > for the hildon libraries, and for working on the C++ bindings.
> 
> It would be best to put the jhbuild .modules file into maemo's SVN
> repository so that maemo developers can easily update the 
> dependencies,
> branch names, and versions when needed. jhbuild can then access it via
> the http URL at
> https://stage.maemo.org/svn/maemo/projects/haf/trunk/
> 
> So, may I have permission to add a jhbuild_modules module 
> there in SVN?
> I think I already have the rights to do that.

It would be really cool to try out jhbuild on stage and I don't
see any problem in having the .modules file there as such.

However, could a way be found to avoid having to maintain
build dependencies in one more place in addition to configure.ac
and the debian control file?

Br,
Carlos