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[Daniel Foré <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I usually just "apt-get build-dep" on anything I need to build and use
Scratch for my coding needs. But then again I'm not doing anything terribly
complex code-wise.

I wouldn't be opposed to a developer meta-package, but the questions
remains: What exactly would such a meta-package pull in?

I'd definitely put any thoughts into this blueprint and we can discuss it
further:
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/elementaryos/+spec/dev-metapackage-elementary


On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 12:46 PM, Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff <
sergey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Now I am fully aware that maybe this would be a hard work, and
>> possiblylimiting to the fact that having everything shipped, would mean
>> largeriso imageswhich then could be "bad" in terms of upload + updated
>> state of the iso.So another idea to support this view would go towards a
>> "ElementaryDeveloper MetaPackage" that would take care of preparing a nice
>> development environment.
>>
>
> Yep, it's on the radar, see
> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/elementaryos/+spec/dev-metapackage-elementary(and
> http://elementaryos.org/journal/how-see-what%E2%80%99s-our-sleeves on
> using blueprints, if you're not familiar with them).
>
> But first we need an SDK to put into the metapackage, which we currently
> don't have (in a complete or stable state at least). There's GrabIt<https://code.launchpad.net/~elementary-os/elementaryos/grabit>but it's not that great for novice devs anyway and Tom has a project
> creation script, both of which should probably become a part of Euclide,
> our work-in-progress IDE at some point...
>
> Right now we're too busy with getting Luna out of the door, but I'd expect
> toolset and SDK work to happen right after Luna release.
>
>
> If you want the libraries needed for developing our software, just use
>> "sudo apt-get source", *any* developer should know how to get this kind
>> of tools. Using bazaar to branch and build our tools from source is also
>> something our developers *must* know how to do.
>>
>
> apt-get source and bzr are by far not the most developer-friendly things.
> In fact, apt-get source has absolutely nothing to do with developers at
> all, and the fact that some people consider it so only proves that our
> toolset is confusing.
>
> Not to mention that we don't even have an into into all these things, yet.
>
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> Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff
> OS architect @ elementary
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Best Regards,

Daniel Foré

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