Category Archives: Tools

Build systems and version control

May 16, 2008 – 2:37 am

In GNOME bug 532353, Elijah suggests switching Metacity to waf. Your thoughts on this are requested. I will build this into the test scripts whether or not we go with it in the long term.
Also, no work is getting done (or at least checked in) until the openssh débâcle is over and [...]

By Thomas Thurman | Comments (13)

Patch wrangler

February 4, 2008 – 2:59 am

While I was committing release-wrangler.py, I thought I’d also include patch-wrangler.py, which (once given a patch number) downloads Metacity trunk, applies the patch, configures, and makes. It would be better if it could figure out the project name given the patch so that it was usable on other projects, which is possible through scraping bugzilla, [...]

By Thomas Thurman | Comments (2)

Release wrangler

February 4, 2008 – 2:54 am

I’ve written a basic release script for Metacity following the standard release instructions, since I have to go through them every week or so anyway and I thought it would be better to automate them. Of course, it took about five times longer to write the script than to do a release, but I look [...]

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