FAO: Programmers Quick Q?

Frank Murphy frankly3d at gmail.com
Mon Jun 29 17:11:55 UTC 2009


On 29/06/09 17:17, Mat Booth wrote:

>
> As a software engineer, I am also interested in making Fedora the best
> development distro out there (I do this by packaging Eclipse plug-ins)
> and I think the formation of a SIG to look after development tools

That's why the sig should come first.



  but I'm having great
> difficulty in identifying the need for a separate developer /spin/.
> Presumably the target audience (people like you and I)

Valid Point

has the
> where-with-all to discover and install their own tools and a pre-set
> list of tools chosen for them is almost never going to cut it
> (Netbeans users tend not to care for Eclipse and vice-versa)



  so who is
> the spin for, exactly?

The hope will be to use it to attract new developers, whether at their 
work years, or new in\out of College. To get a taste of f\l\oss 
programming.

Frank




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