On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 5:39 PM, Elad Alfassa <elad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 8:47 PM, Colin Walters <walters@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> >> The devel tools in "dev container" pattern though really works so >> well IMO there's not *too* much excuse not to do it. The main >> sticking point is probably IDE integration. > > > This really depends on what you're developing. > I don't see the "dev container" workflow work for a Gtk app... you'd have to > build it in the container, and then run it outside of the container. It > sounds to me like this would get confusing really quickly. > (stuff like "why doesn't this work? oh, I'm in the container still") > Last time I checked you can't run graphical applications inside "normal" > containers (but that was a while ago, so maybe I'm outdated)? Would GNOME Builder be better for GUI apps? I haven't tried myself, but it might be cleaner to get that path working instead. Also note that you don't have to run the app itself in the container. You can hack, `make`, and `make install` to a mounted host dir, and then run it on the host. It does make iterating slightly more cumbersome, though that's part of the "better tooling required" discussed in this thread. _______________________________________________ desktop mailing list -- desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to desktop-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
