Information needed for Qreator

[Andrew Starr-Bochicchio]

On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 8:24 AM, David Planella
<david.planella at canonical.com> wrote:
> Oh wow, thanks Andrew for the quick review and the fixes! Regarding the
> issues with extras/opt packaging, there are some things that are known
> [1] [2], but you've also discovered new issues. Would you mind reporting
> them as separate bugs? I think it's important that the Quickly
> developers are aware of them, as fixing them would make life for app
> authors a lot easier. /opt still seems to be a major hurdle for getting
> your apps into extras.

No problem. Lost in all the comments about the process/packaging was
the fact that I think you made a pretty cool app. I also wanted to
review your app since I figured to would be a good test case for the
process and would get me up to speed for what it looked like. I
certainly understand some of the issues faced by app devs and the ARB
much better now. This was an app made with the "blessed" tools by
someone familiar with the requirements/process, and it still wasn't
nearly as straight forward as it should be.

I'll go back through my notes and try to capture the issues in bug
reports against quickly and/or python-distutils-extra (which seems to
actually be doing the heavy lifting of the actual package generation).

> What's your suggestion going forward, shall I just merge your branch to
> trunk? My only concern is that I'd like to keep using quickly commands
> for packaging, as they come in quite handy for automating the uploads,
> especially for those without much packaging skills such as myself, and
> I'm worried that the quickly commands might overwrite the changes you've
> made to make it work with /opt.

Hmm... I'm not entirely sure. I've just started as an ARB "helper." I
don't know what they've suggested to folks in the past. I suppose you
could keep around a separate extras branch that you remerge on trunk
when you're ready to make new submissions.

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