Re: [Java-gnome-developer] Re: "Java-GNOME Con 1"

[Jeff M. <ku...@gm...>]

Forgot to attach my file.  Here it is.


On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 07:21:00 -0500, Jeff Morgan <ku...@gm...> wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 17:47:17 -0500, Ben Konrath <be...@ba...> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'd like to take the opportunity to invite those of you who can't actually
> > make it to Toronto. It would be great to see some people meet up on irc
> > for some hacking as well :)
> >
> > I'm going to start building my gnome stack soon. For those who are
> > planning on helping out (in person or on IRC) it would be very useful to
> > have gnome stack built before Saturday morning.
> >
> > Jeff, do you have your jhbuild conf posted anywhere?
> 
> I am attaching my .jhbuildrc file to this email.  There are two items
> to be aware of.  The details of each follows:
> 
> 1) jhbuild has not been updated to support the new java-gnome
> structure where each module is a separate project in cvs.  Further
> we have recently split out our base classes and jni utility routines
> into their own small library to make it easier to support bindings
> that do not derive from glib (like cairo-java).  This is also not reflected
> in jhbuild.  This means that you can use jhbuild to create the environment
> you need to develop java-gnome but you cannot use jhbuild to
> build the java-gnome bindings.  If you use eclipse for development
> this is not a problem.  You can just check out the code and hack
> away.  If you use other tools you could easily check out the java-gnome
> modules (more on this later) into your srcdir for jhbuild and hack
> hack.
> 
> 2) You must make a decision on your moduleset prior to starting your
> build.  The gnome-2.12 moduleset still uses gtk+ 2.6 but our libgtk-java
> cvs HEAD uses gtk+ 2.7.  If you plan to work on libgtk-java, cairo-java,
> or our new gst-java bindings you will need to use the gtk28 moduleset.
> If you plan to work on any of the other binding projects you must use
> the gnome-2.12 moduleset.  My .jhbuildrc file is setup so you can just
> comment/uncomment out the correct moduleset and modules.
> 
> HOW TO BUILD JAVA-GNOME
> ----------------------------------------------
> Currently our gtk-java, and cairo-java bindings are in heavy development
> while our gnome-java, gconf-java, and glade-java bindings are in a stable
> (non-development) period.  We have made structural changes to the modules
> in development.  Due to these changes there are currently two ways in
>  which you would build java-gnome.  This will change once our other modules
> enter development and the first method mentioned below will be the only
> method.
> 
> 1) If you wish to build gtk-java and cairo-java for development you should
> build the following modules in this order (remember you need jhbuild gtk28
> moduleset for this):
> 
> gnome cvs: java-gnome
> freedesktop cvs: cairo-java
> gnome cvs: libgtk-java
> 
> 2) If you wish to build the entire java-gnome stack (stable releases) for
> bug fixing you should build the following modules in this order:
> 
> gnome cvs: libgtk-java branch gtk-java-2-6
> gnome cvs: llibgnome-java
> gnome cvs: libglade-java
> gnome cvs: libgconf-java
> 
> There are other modules that are part of java-gnome which are quite hackable!
> You should follow build order 2 above.  These modules are:
> 
> gnome cvs: libgnomevfs-java
> gnome cvs: libgtkmozembed-java
> gnome cvs: libvte-java
> 
> and soon:
> 
> freedesktop cvs: gst-java
> freedesktop cvs: dbus-java
> 
> I look forward to a great time in Toronto this weekend.  In addition
> to a healthy dose of hacking there are several key items we will
> be discussing which will have an impact on the bindings.  If you
> cannot attend please join us on irc.
> 
> --
> Jeffrey Morgan
> 
> "The highest reward for a man's toil is not
> what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it"
>     - Jon Ruskin
> 


-- 
Jeffrey Morgan

"The highest reward for a man's toil is not
what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it"
    - Jon Ruskin