Request for content addition

[Dean Sas]

Phil Bull wrote:
> Hi Dean,
> 
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Ooops, thanks Phil.

> On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 13:23 +0100, Dean Sas wrote:
>> I agree with Phil, I removed some of the IDEs/tools listed in that
>> section a while ago (Intrepid/Jaunty?) so that one C/C++ IDE was
>> listed - anjuta from the Gnome developer release set. Also both
>> NetBeans and Eclipse are listed under the Java section (unless this
>> has changed recently.
>>
>> The programming section could do with revamping or removing (is
>> programming something anyone looks in our system docs for?), if kept
>> it should link to the different IDEs help if possible, link to
>> library.gnome.org and possibly an introduction to programming for
>> GTK/C (we already link to python-gtk documentation). Some explanation
>> of the "platform" would be useful, though I guess Gnome probably have
>> something we can link to/embed for that.
> 
> I'm having problems thinking of a sensible use case for having
> programming topics in the system docs. Do we still ship "Dive into
> Python"?

Nope, it was dropped a release or so ago (cd space I'm guessing).

> I vote that we merge the programming section into the wiki and remove it
> from the system docs, unless someone can come up with a good reason to
> keep it where it is.

No objections here, there's not that much to the programming section,
just a list of recommended apps for programming and links to some tutorials.

Dean