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[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Rick Spencer wrote on 26/01/11 14:58:
>
> On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 10:23 -0600, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
>...
>> While those posts are about mobile platforms, this is the kind of
>> experience we need to design in making Ubuntu an attractive target
>> platform for developers. The end-to-end experience of being attracted
>> to Ubuntu development, installing the SDK, learning the APIs,
>> developing an application, submitting it, and tracking revenue and
>> feedback.
>
> Is there ambiguity about Ubuntu's aspiration to accomplish this?
>...

Sorry, I don't know what you mean. I just thought they were interesting
comparisons.

Rick Spencer wrote on 27/01/11 20:45:
>...
> What do we do for a developer that wants to write a brand 3D game
> versus one who has a legacy code base for a  large application they
> want to port versus one who wants to create a trivial app to run once
> to solve a simple problem for themselves? There are all valid
> application scenarios, and of course there are many many more. There
> is no way that any one set of tools and APIs can fulfill these use
> cases.

For counterexample, id's Rage (a 3-D game), Omni's OmniGraffle for iPad
(a large application ported from a legacy codebase), and David Knell's
Corntab (which he created because he had trouble remembering crontab's
syntax) were all developed with the same set of tools and APIs.

> The more valid comparison would be to compare Ubuntu to the Windows
> developer platform. It's interesting to peruse msdn.com to see how on
> just the Windows platform there is so much going there. Look at just
> the New Project dialog in Visual Studio to see how many options
> Microsoft offers for just *new* applications.
>...

Sure. We might not cater for every kind of developer for a while, but we
needn't actively restrict the developer portal or IDE to any particular
kind of developer or application.

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