[Librem-5-dev] Porting apps to L5

[David Boddie]

Hi Leland,

I'm not a GNOME native, so I can't really advise you about the correct way to
develop applications. Take a look at the current build system and see if you
can get something working from the current source tree.

My impression is that GNOME Builder should detect the kind of build system in
use, so it may be the case that you don't have to think too much about that.

Feel free to ask if you need more guidance and I'm sure others will help you
out.

David

On Monday, 4 March 2019 17:34:43 CET Leland Carlye wrote:
> Hi David, .deb distribution for this case makes sense to me. Thank you!
> 
> Regarding GNOME, does anyone has experience setting up an environment to
> modify applications? As far as I understand from GNOME documentation, the
> way to go is to setup jhbuild+gnome-builder . Is this correct?
> > > Hi guys I'm trying to port gnome-terminal. Now in the "Application
> > > Development" section I see that applications will be flatpaks and it
> > > gives
> > > the steps to configure such an environment. Now, I don't think that
> > > gnome-terminal will be a flatpak right? In that case what are the
> > > instructions to seupt and environment to do the porting? Is a
> > > jhbuild+gnome-builder enviroment + deb packaging the way to go in this
> > > case? Anyone has had the same situation?
> > 
> > I would suggest porting it upstream so that your changes get picked up by
> > the distributions and the phone just uses a regular deb package.
> > 
> > Upstream gnome-terminal doesn't seem to provide a flatpak manifest, and it
> > makes more sense for the application to run outside of a sandbox for the
> > use cases it has. So I would suggest aiming for a deb package.
> > 
> > Does that help? Maybe others have a better insight into this.
> > 
> > David

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