I wrote a HOWTO some time ago to help developers find their way. http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HighQuality-Apps-HOWTO/ http://avi.alkalay.net/linux/docs/HighQuality/ (better layout) Regards, Avi On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 11:57:15 -0300, Avi Alkalay <avibrazil@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 15:26:53 +0100, Harald Hoyer <harald@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Avi Alkalay wrote: > > > > > > > On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 20:27:33 +0100, Kyrre Ness Sjobak > > > <kyrre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > >>On the server side things are looking better - as far as i can see, > > >>Linux is often the preferred platform here for developers to develop on, > > >>simply because it is the most widespread. > > > > > > > > > Unfortunatelly this is not true. I worked with several Windows > > > developers that were starting projects on Linux, and they couldn't > > > wait for the day they'll go back to Windows IDEs. Linux is a > > > wonderfull platform for developers as long as they have that > > > hacker-spirit, as we have :-). Linux drawbacks for developers are too > > > much configuration files to edit while deploying their software, like > > > add user access to tty on /etc/security/console.perms, or simply > > > activating a needed Apache module for their CGI. Oh, and configuration > > > files location and format differ from distro to distro, so all > > > deployments must be done by hand, with a human brain, and almost not > > > automations (they usally don't know sed, perl, rpm, etc, and probably > > > will not learn it). Also, the FHS is wonderful, but they don't know > > > it, so they ask "why /etc, why /bin, why /usr/bin ?". > > > > > > Microsoft's most killer apps are their IDEs and development > > > frameworks. Because they know how strategic is to have the developers > > > (killer and business apps) working for them. > > > > Did you show them kdevelop?? > > > Yes, and they don't really like it, compared to MS' tools. > I use KDeveloper. It is so so... has some annoying usability bugs. > To manage open source autoconfig source packages is a huge chalenge > for KDeveloper. > > The most difficult part is packaging and deployment. > Windows developers don't know how to integrate their (killer) apps > into the OS. They are not aware of the FHS, they don't know how to > RPMize, every distribution has different approaches to /etc/sysconfig, > /etc/security stuff, etc. So the final experience is: "This Linux > stuff, too confusing and it doesn't work". > > Just my impressions from the market and commercial development ecosystem.... > > Regards, > Avi >
