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[Thomas Corwin <dog1489@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I didn't mean reason, I meant reading... 

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On Jun 10, 2013, at 10:45 AM, "Thomas Corwin" <dog1489@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> After reason the link that Hannie provided, I saw that the bzr branch is restricted to one user being able to push to the branch. That's a problem.
> 
> But I will look into it all today, and "quickly" learn some python so I can attempt to bring it back.
> 
> Thank you all for the help!
> Thomas
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Jun 10, 2013, at 7:42 AM, "Patrick Dickey" <pdickeybeta@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> On the link that Hannie provides, if you follow through the thread (or
>> read it in an email client), you'll see that Neil Tallim had offered to
>> help out in what ways he could with getting it running. Maybe if we
>> figure out what needs to be done to get it working on 13.10, we can ask
>> Neil for suggestions on how to make it happen.
>> 
>> I'll say that my Python experience has come from writing a couple of
>> limited scripts and from reading through the special Python issues at
>> Full Circle Magazine (plus their ongoing series on Python). That might
>> be something to check out, if you want to learn it.
>> 
>> Have a great day.:)
>> Patrick.
>> 
>> On Mon, 2013-06-10 at 11:20 +0200, Hannie Dumoleyn wrote: 
>>> We discussed quickshot before. Here is a link to an email from Patrick 
>>> (with useful tips):
>>> https://lists.launchpad.net/ubuntu-manual/msg03688.html
>>> Hannie
>>> 
>>> Op 10-06-13 07:04, Thomas Corwin schreef:
>>>>> I'm slightly confused... quickshot is (or was) a "Quickly" app in
>>>>> Python, not a C# app.  See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Quickly .  Why start
>>>>> over using a totally different language and ask for "project files"?
>>>> I have more experience with C# than I do Python. And I'm sorry for using the term "project files". I am a .NET developer, and that is how we refer to the "source code" of our applications.
>>>> 
>>>>> You can do a normal
>>>>> 
>>>>> bzr branch lp:quickshot
>>>>> 
>>>>> to get the current quickshot codebase (and all history of that codebase,
>>>>> for the 7 months in 2010 it was under development).  That should include
>>>>> all the Ubuntu packaging files (under debian/ ) needed to build a
>>>>> quickshot package from source using the usual Debian/Ubuntu packaging
>>>>> tools.
>>>> I forgot I could do that.. I never thought of it really. Haha. But I will do that once I fix my Ubuntu installation. (Windows 8 and Ubuntu do not go together well when you dual boot....)
>>>> 
>>>>> What would you need "project files" (as in the ones used by MS
>>>>> Visual Studio?) for?  Or does (bzr branch lp:quickshot) provide what you
>>>>> meant by "project files"?
>>>> The bzr branch will provide the files I was looking for. Again, I shouldn't have used my usual terminology.
>>>> 
>>>>> Wouldn't it make more sense to fix the existing quickshot app than to
>>>>> start over in a new language (and development environment) entirely?
>>>> More yes than no. Yes, because I will only have to fix the application, rather than start over, but No, because I am unfamiliar with Python. I will update the precious code that was written in Python, though.
>>>> 
>>>>> Info on creating a PPA is at https://help.launchpad.net/Packaging/PPA
>>>>> when you need it, by the way :)
>>>> And thank you Jonathan! :) that's what I was looking for.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Thomas Corwin
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