On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 05:11:27PM -0500, Huan Truong wrote: > Hi all, > > As the summer break is drawing near and I think I will have some spare > weeks sitting at home so I decided to learn to program in linux, > specifically how to (1) create a GNOME GTK application, (2) pack it > for some architectures for debian (amd64 and i386) and (3) put it with > some other required packages on a repo.
If you want to package something for distributions (including Ubuntu) then presumably you'll want to read the Debian developers' materials. I studied to be a Debian developer for a while, so I think I can say with some authority that there is plenty to learn. It would be great to have someone current on the topic around here though (I'm a bit rusty these days). As for creating GTK interfaces, I recommend glade-2. It allows you to draw your interfaces interactively and then sort of "hook them" to your program. I personally have been writing my Gnome applications in Perl mostly, but you can do C and other languages as well. If you want to really join the free software world, you'll eventually want to learn C. It's like the King's English, everyone knows some. Unix and C are like conjoined twins, they just go together. Don -- Don Bindner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----------------------------------------------------------------- To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe -----------------------------------------------------------------
