It's great, but it is not address my concerns, because:----- Original Message -----From: "Hedayat Vatankhah" <hedayat.fwd@xxxxxxxxx> To: "Development discussions related to Fedora" <devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, January 2, 2015 11:15:58 PM Subject: Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments <...> GNOME Software is not that useful for a developer. As Rechard himself said, he'll need a package manager anyway. So, If Workstation product really targets developers, specially the ones who don't want to use terminal, it MUST include a graphical package manager. There are developers unaware of the concept of package manager which does not help. Gnome Software is actually useful once the add-ons functionality is fully expanded on applications. Works need to be done allowing a seamless integration. Add-ons cannot cover development libraries, unless every library is an add-on for all IDEs!It can be done dynamic aka install devel packages on request by IDEs - see https://rgrunber.fedorapeople.org/eclipse_packagekit_1.ogv 1) If its going to be the only method for installing -devel packages, it should always work: it should be able to install a missing library or header file (consider a makefile only project). Also, not everybody uses correct package name in their configure script, some people use corresponding Debian package name (with a lib prefix and even sometimes full debian package name: libfoo-dev); so partial/non-exact matching should be also implemented. 2) More importantly, it doesn't address my main concern at all: what if I want to create a new project, and I'm looking for a good XML library, or would like to see what Fedora has to offer in this area? Even if I've found a great library in Internet, I should create a test in my configure/cmake checks for that library and see if PK will find it. It doesn't look like a user friendly way to search for a development library! It's a workaround around a missing UI. Looking for development libraries, see their ranking and even reading user's reviews is all completely useful for a developer, which aligns perfectly with what Software offers for applications. Regards, Hedayat Alexander Kurtakov Red Hat Eclipse team |
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