On Aug 9, 2007, at 11:26 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Despite nearly a decade of success for Linux, one fundamental issue
> has
> not been solved by the community: helping ISVs overcome the expense
> and
> time needed to port applications to different distributions that use
> different APIs and packages.
Hmm... sounds like somebody should start developing a consistent,
cross-platform development tool.
> This is something that I see as a RPITA as a developer. How many
> different distros do you target for as a developer of a vertical?
> Say you
> were going after the home checkbook app and felt that Intuit won't
> play in
> the Linux world for another 5 years. How much do you have to tweak
> for
> each flavor of an OS out there?
This is a non-issue. All current distros run pretty much the same
software. I say 'pretty much' because each has some custom stuff that
is designed to make it more attractive. But Firefox, Thunderbird,
Postfix, Mailman, and most other apps run just fine on all distros.
You will have an issue with older versions of distros not having the
latest libraries, but that's no different than having a Vista app
that won't run on Win2K.
> I don't know and have always thought of that in the background as
> to why
> the killer app in Linux is harder to market.
>
> This comes from the Java write once and tweak often depending on OS.
Java had the right idea, but was a relatively poor implementation.
Python is much more robust, and the wxWidgets/wxPython GUI toolkits
are a much smarter approach to x-plat UI, as they handle writing to
the native API for you.
-- Ed Leafe
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