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[Darcy Brás da Silva <dardevelin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

No, I wasn't aware of such blueprints, I guess it's a bit faulty on my
side on not checking it before other the talking about the idea on IRC.
I will certainly have a deep look at it. Thanks
On Tue, 2012-09-04 at 23:46 +0400, Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff 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 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.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff
> OS architect @ elementary

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Darcy Brás da Silva <dardevelin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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