On 6/28/07, Luis Matos <luis.matos@ua.pt> wrote:
Qua, 2007-06-27 às 23:50 -0300, Gustavo Franco escreveu: > development (out of scope here) or desktop development tasks? Probably > you also care about this blog post: desktop development ... I have seen that people look at linux and asks ... now, what do i do to develop something. That people are not programmers (as in informatics), they are mechanical engineers, for example, that code in visual basic, C#, C/C++ and not that much. If you show to them that they can easily have a development environment, their perspective changes. This was a target of a thread in -devel sometime ago.
Hi Luís, You can start helping with this dropping a task format file into /usr/share/taskel (realize that in the Packages field you won't use task-fields but the list of packages itself) containing such desktop development tasks. After that you can figure out the best way on how somebody could install that. synaptic has rudimentar support to install tasks that could be better. I've some suggestions and should write some patches for this, but you can invoke it for tests running: 'synaptic --task-window'. Have fun! ;-) cheers, -- stratus http://stratusandtheswirl.blogspot.com get debian @ http://get.debian.net/