Flatpak as part of the development process

[Alexander Larsson]

On Wed, 2017-04-05 at 01:06 +0200, Aleix Pol wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 11:29 AM, Alexander Larsson <alexl at redhat.com>
> 
> Agreed, the IDE shouldn't be calling flatpak-builder other than for
> setting up the build directories.
> 
> I do think that having the "container" case being usable from the IDE
> would be interesting though, because we want to use the same
> configuration we have in the json file already to set up the build
> for
> the first time, I guess this would be a bit awkward on systems where
> having a separate build directory is not common. This can possibly be
> done by the IDE though, by configuring the project itself, mimicking
> the logic.
> 
> Just to make sure I understood everything correctly, you mean that
> currently when you build --from-git, there's 2 clones involved: one
> for fetching the json file and a second to actually fetch the
> sources.

Sort of. There is a "mirror this git repo" operation, which is called
twice with the git repo url. But the second time its already locally
downloaded, so it will just pull the latest changes (which is typically
none).

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