Make Ubuntu desktop a better platform for App Developers

[Anthony Papillion]

I'm definitely planning on doing that very soon. In the end, the  
transition wasn't too bad. Actually, my only issue was packaging.

Anthony

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On Apr 9, 2013, at 1:32 PM, Ashraf Samy Hegab <ashcairo at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> Could you write blog post on your experience from switching from  
> Windows development to Ubuntu?
>
> I used Qt to develop my program and while I've never managed to get  
> it packaged for Ubuntu due to my lack of fortitude, I'd still love to.
>
> Ash
>
>
> On 9 April 2013 19:20, Anthony Papillion <papillion at gmail.com> wrote:
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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
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