Make Ubuntu desktop a better platform for App Developers

[Ashraf Samy Hegab]

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