<font><span style="line-height:normal;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">If you guys did that, I'd seriously love you! I submitted an app around 10 months ago and haven't heard anything since.</span></font><div>
<font><span style="line-height:normal;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></font></div><div><font><span style="line-height:normal;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Full disclosure: I'm not a Linux vim child.</span></font></div>
<div><font><span style="line-height:normal;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Ash<span></span></span></font></div><br>On Tuesday, 9 April 2013, Andrew King wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">Remember that when you "abstract all that away" people get enraged about weird problems. <div> </div><div>Packaging is not horribly complicated and even less so if you use one of several "normal" build systems.</div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 6:14 AM, Barry Warsaw <span dir="ltr"><<a href="javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'barry@ubuntu.com');" target="_blank">barry@ubuntu.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>On Apr 09, 2013, at 04:16 PM, Petko wrote:<br>
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>I'm not sure I agree with your solution , but the problem is very relevant<br>
>. I've had a 1.0 of my app for 2 months now , but I don't have the time to<br>
>dig into the deb-packaging , just because everything around it is too<br>
>stone-age , and time-consuming to get working . The OpenSuse building service<br>
>was the best thing I've seen , but I haven't got around making it work yet<br>
>either (I've read on it for ~2-3 hours and set up an account etc. , but had<br>
>to leave it at that for the time being) . Is the install process really that<br>
>complex ??<br>
<br>
</div>Today, it is.<br>
<br>
I think there is lots of opportunity to make the entire toolchain easier to<br>
use, at least in the more constrained environment of app deployment. This<br>
could involve wrapping the traditional Debian tools in layers that hide most<br>
of the ugliness for 90% of the apps out there. It could be we need to adopt<br>
or write a new system for installing and managing apps (along with all the<br>
artifacts that come along with them, like .desktop files and so on) but that<br>
play nice with the rest of the system. There will likely be some class of<br>
applications that do crazy things and need the full power of the .deb<br>
toolchain, so we can't prohibit that either.<br>
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-Barry<br>
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