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["Jay I." <jay.27182818@xxxxxxxxx>]

> There are many places where a set of tools that work together are
> required.  Rather than trying to figure out what is available and test
> all the packages you could answer a few questions and the system could
> make suggestions for you!  Best of all, these suggestions would be based
> on the experience of others.

right. we will group different tools into categories and let user
select say 'system programming' and get everything installed starting from
gcc up to a powerful ide along with all necessary man pages, and maybe even
kernel sources;)

mm..maybe 'environment configurator'? in fact our manager will create and
configure a working environment so maybe it should be referred to as configurator?

anyway what we must do is to hide as many complexities as possible from our users.
when i started programming on linux i really missed some sort of a magic button
with a scripture like 'make it all work!';) i even didn't know that i need g++ to
compile .cpp files. so we just need to arrange everything that we have to offer
in such an order that it will be impossible to make a mistake or get confused.

i think many newbies get annoyed when they see something like
'add/install an application/program'. maybe we should show them something like:

would you like to extend your working environment? in which way would you like to
extend it? would you like to extend your system's multimedia capabilities?
development capabilities? web hosting capabilities? ...

jay

On Sun, 2009-07-05 at 22:48 +0200, Charl Wentzel wrote: 
> i Guys
> 
> It seems I have hijacked the other thread, hopefully this will now be a
> separate thread.
> 
> Yeah, environment manager isn't the best name yet.  I'm still trying but
> can't find a nice short name:
> - DevBuntu Environment Customizer
> - DevBuntu Environment Installer
> - I give up
> 
> There's of course another idea coming from our previous threads... that
> is that this project could be used for many other applications and not
> just development!  What if you want to do Multimedia such as creating
> music or video editing.  What if you are in Engineering and want to do
> electronic or architectual design.  Education, etc, etc
> 
> There are many places where a set of tools that work together are
> required.  Rather than trying to figure out what is available and test
> all the packages you could answer a few questions and the system could
> make suggestions for you!  Best of all, these suggestions would be based
> on the experience of others.
> 
> DevBuntu is actually just one such application!  So the installer name
> should actually not include DevBuntu in its name.  E.g.
> 
> Custom Environment Manager
> Custom Environment Generator
> Ubuntu Environment Enhancer
> ... whatever
> 
> It's not critical yet, so let's keep the pot stirring for a while
> 
> Charl