Now that 3.24 is almost here, I want to take a little downtime and write some information about pieces of the design underneath Builder. Today, let’s lift the hood and take a look at Runtimes. In Builder, an IdeRuntime is an abstraction around an environment to run programs. That could be build tooling, SDK management, … Continue reading Under the hood: Runtimes
One thing we are striving for in 3.24 is to make it as simple as possible for newcomers to get their development environment setup. Hopefully in time so that our next round of Outreachy and GSoC interns have an easier time getting started. A common installation issue we’ve seen is that people have flatpak, but … Continue reading Simplifying newcomer setup
In Builder, we landed a new feature for 3.24 that allows you to create a new terminal inside the application runtime. If you’re building against your host system, then this is nothing special. If you’re building against jhbuild you’ll get a shell inside of that (but again, nothing really special). However, if you’re building for … Continue reading Exploring your application runtime
A decade ago I lived on the west side of Los Angeles. One of my favorite conferences was Southern California Linux Expo. Much like Karen, this is the conference where I performed my first technical talk. It’s also where I met and became friends with great people like Jono, Ted, Jeff, the fantastic organizing staff, … Continue reading Flatpak at SCaLE 15x
One of the great powers of namespace APIs on Linux (mount namespaces, user namespaces, etc) is that you can create a new view into the world of your computer that is very different from the host. This can make traditional profiling tools difficult. To begin with, we need to ensure that we have access to … Continue reading Profiling Flatpak’d applications
I’ve been rather quiet recently working on new features for Builder. But we managed to just release Builder 3.22.3 which is full of bug fixes and a really new important feature. You can now meaningfully target flatpak when building your application. Matthew Leeds has done this outstanding work and it is really going to simplify … Continue reading Contribute to Polari with this one simple trick!
It’s good to dive into our shared history every now and again to learn something new. We want to build a customized shortcut engine for Builder and that means we need to have a solid understanding of all the ways to activate shortcuts in GTK+. So the following is a list of what I’ve found, … Continue reading Accelerators, a history lesson
The 3.24 cycle is just getting started, and I have a few plans for Sysprof to give us a more polished profiling experience in Builder. The details can be found on the mailing list. In particular, I’d love to land support for visualizers. I expect this to happen soon, since there is just a little … Continue reading Sysprof Plans for 3.24
Martin Blanchard put together a new “quick highlight” plugin for Builder this last week. It was a great example of how to submit a new feature, so I just wanted to highlight it here. Post to bugzilla, attach a patch, and we will review quickly and help with any additional integration that might be necessary. … Continue reading Quick Highlight
It’s no secret that I focus my build system efforts in Builder around Autotools. I’m happy to include support for other build systems, so long as I’m not the person writing it. Sometimes the right piece of code falls together so easily you wonder how the hell you didn’t think of it before. Today was … Continue reading Build System Fallbacks