----- Original Message ----- > From: "Przemek Klosowski" <przemek.klosowski@xxxxxxxx> > To: devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Friday, February 14, 2014 10:43:16 PM > Subject: Re: Heads up; F22 will require applications to ship appdata to be listed in software center > > On 02/14/2014 01:41 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > > > > On Fri, 2014-02-14 at 13:02 -0500, Przemek Klosowski wrote: > > > > On 01/28/2014 03:12 PM, Richard Hughes wrote: > > > > On 28 January 2014 18:43, Przemek Klosowski <przemek.klosowski@xxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > > > There are two separate issues here: 'abandonment', and 'GUIness'. As to the > latter, I think it's a mistake to have a primary application installation > tool that only deals with GUI apps, because it relegates text-based tools, > such as 'units', to a second-class status of being hard to find and to > install. > That's not the tool we've designed and built. We've built a GUI > application installer, not a package installer. > While it's not the fault of the installer, I am concerned about that > distinction. For better or worse, a lot of useful tools seem to be out > of scope for a 'GUI application installer'. GCC, perl, git, octave, R, > units, mysql/sqlite3, this kind of thing. > Do you actually want to use a tool like Software to install gcc? > > I just can't see why you would. You know gcc is what you want. You don't > need a shiny description and some screenshots and user reviews on a 1-5 > star scale. 'yum install gcc' seems a massively better fit. Who would it > benefit to have something like gcc in Software? > I see what you mean, but how do you install it, and other examples I > provided? It's not just gcc: > it's gcc-gfortran, gcc-arm, mingw64-gcc, msp430-gcc, etc. > Well with GCC we are assuming people will read docs and figure out the command line parameters needed to use gcc. So expecting people to read the docs on how to use yum or 'yum search' is not expecting to much in my opinion. That said we should list the Developer Assistant in the Software center (or even have it installed by default) and that should be the tool IMHO to install these and other developer tools. Christian -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
