r18041 - gnucash/trunk - Merge webkit branch into trunk.

[Derek Atkins]

Hi Philip,

Thanks for the pointer.  I've forwarded this back to the list because
you forgot to CC the list..

-derek

Philip Tait <pjtait at gmail.com> writes:

> Derek,
>
> Have you considered using the SUSE Build Service?
>
> "The openSUSE Build Service is the only service that allows developers
> to package software for all major Linux distributions. The service
> provides software developers with a convenient and easy to use tool to
> create and release open source software for openSUSE and other Linux
> distributions on different hardware architectures and for a broad user
> audience."
>
> https://build.opensuse.org/
>
> Just a thought.
>
> Philip J. Tait
>
> On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 10:52 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
>> We do not have a build farm yet..  Now that we have the vmhost we
>> could.  We could also set up 'mock' to build for various RPM-based
>> systems.  It might be interesting to set up tinderbox, but I have
>> no experience with that.
>> 
>> -derek
>> 
>> Quoting Phil Longstaff <plongstaff at rogers.com>:
>> 
>> > I've never looked into the issue.  Is there a build farm we can use 
>> > with different versions of linux distros so that we can check the 
>> > build and limitations?  Otherwise, we're limited by what developers 
>> > and testers have.  I suppose VMs could help with this.
>> >
>> > Phil
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > ________________________________
>> > From: Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU>
>> > To: Herbert Thoma <herbert.thoma at iis.fraunhofer.de>
>> > Cc: gnucash-devel at gnucash.org
>> > Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2009 10:07:40 AM
>> > Subject: Re: r18041 - gnucash/trunk - Merge webkit branch into trunk.
>> >
>> > Herbert Thoma <herbert.thoma at iis.fraunhofer.de> writes:
>> >
>> >> Herbert Thoma schrieb:
>> >>> Derek Atkins schrieb:
>> >>>> Herbert Thoma <herbert.thoma at iis.fraunhofer.de> writes:
>> >>>>
>> >>>>>>>> That's the one combination I wasn't able to test (gtkhtml that 
>> >>>>>>>> doesn't use
>> >>>>>>>> gtkprint).  What platform are you on?
>> >>>>>>> SuSE 10.3 (x86_64).
>> >>>>>> What version of gnome, gtk, and gnome-print do you have?
>> >>>>> pkg-config --modversion libgnome-2.0
>> >>>>> 2.16.0
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> pkg-config --modversion gtk+-2.0
>> >>>>> 2.10.6
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> pkg-config --modversion libgnomeprint-2.2
>> >>>>> 2.12.1
>> >>>> Ah, yeah, Fedora-7 era GnomePrint (pre GtkPrint) libraries.
>> >>>> As we're in the process of moving completely to Webkit (at least
>> >>>> I hope that's the goal) I think it's /probably/ safe to ignore
>> >>>> these old libraries.
>> >>>
>> >>> Well SuSE may be a bit slow on the gnome side. This distro is only about
>> >>> one year old.
>> >>
>> >> I revoke my statement. This coputer is still on SuSE 10.2 and the support
>> >> period for this distro has ended ...
>> >
>> > Ahh, yeah, like I said, Fedora-7 era.  I'm not sure offhand what version
>> > of Gnome Fedora-8 or 9 has, but I would hope that we should support any
>> > distros that were released by, say, May 1, 2008.
>> >
>> > My only concern is going to be RHEL/CentOS.  The most recent
>> > release/update (5.3) probably still has a relatively old Gnome/Gtk.  But
>> > then again RHEL5 is old enough that it doesn't fall into the May 1, 2008
>> > release-by date.  So I honestly don't think I care that much about it.
>> > GnuCash 2.2 works there just fine, and someone could backport the
>> > dependencies if they really want to run bleeding-edge gnucash.
>> >
>> > So I think we should target Fedora 9 and equivalent Ubuntu and SuSE
>> > releases from early 2008.
>> >
>> > -derek
>> >
>> > --
>> >       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
>> >       Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
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       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
       Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
       URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/    PP-ASEL-IA     N1NWH
       warlord at MIT.EDU                        PGP key available