Re: developing on open source, apt
On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 08:07:01PM +0100, bluehut wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> Bear with me, this is a Debian question indeed.
> I would like to help with LXQt development and have a question about how
> to best go about this on Debian.
>
> As a general question:
> Should I clone the git repo, build the programs and run them, or is
> there a way to actively develop without circumventing apt?
Just running the app from the build directory should be no
problem, however if you need to install, you can use
checkinstall instead of 'make install'. checkinstall
creates a Debian package, which you can easily remove later on.
> Since I will develop on the application and test every change I made to
> me it seems easiest to just do it like that. Wihtout building .deb for
> every test version I created. However I am not sure if this is the best way.
>
> Also LXQt comes with several libs, some of them being shipped in their
> repo, so I have the decision to take those, or the versions offerend by apt.
>
> I hope you can help me.
>
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> Michael
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