Make Ubuntu desktop a better platform for App Developers

[Anthony Papillion]

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On Apr 9, 2013, at 10:23 AM, Andrew King <aking1012.com at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> Packaging is not horribly complicated and even less so if you use  
> one of several "normal" build systems.

That's true. But it is really complicated for new devs coming from,  
say, Windows.  I'm speaking from the perspective of an experienced  
Windows developer who's fairly recently transitioned into Ubuntu only  
development.

The toolchain itself isn't particulary hard. But the documentation  
simply made my eyes glaze over. In the end, my first app was submitted  
binary only using Ubuntu's "upload and we'll create the package for  
you' service. Much easier and accessible than doing it all myself.

Sure, once I learned the packaging system all was fine but there was a  
fairly steep learning curve that might keep some new developers to the  
platform at bay.

Anthony