Hi guys, At the Developer Documentation/Tools hackfest in Berlin earlier this month, we discussed some issues surrounding the adoption of GNOME as a development platform. One of the issues that came up was deployment - people can use Anjuta and other GNOME developer tools to write and maintain an application, but the packaging and delivery is left completely up to them. This is far from ideal - packaging can be difficult, choosing which distributions to target is confusing for new developers, and other platforms do a much better job at it than we do (think Android, iOS).
A couple of ideas that were discussed were integrating the OpenSuSE build service into Anjuta somehow, or using Ubuntu's Quickly templates as an Anjuta project type. Well, I asked about this on the ubuntu-devel list [1] and people seemed broadly supportive of integrating a packaging workflow into GNOME tools. Quickly looks like it could be adapted for use in other programming languages (it's all Python at the moment) and other distros without too much hassle, for example [2], and another project (pkgme) [3] came to light which might be able to do the same thing in a more general way. Is anyone interested in working on this? It could make GNOME development *much* easier for newcomers. Thanks, Phil [1] - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2010-December/032250.html [2] - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2010-December/032274.html [3] - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2010-December/032275.html -- Phil Bull https://launchpad.net/~philbull Book - http://nostarch.com/ubuntu4.htm _______________________________________________ gnome-devtools mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-devtools
