On Sun, 2007-05-13 at 13:17 +0100, Mark Harrison wrote: > How easy is it to make a Linux package? One of the nice things about > Windows (as a developer) is that making up an installation package is > very straightforward.
Straightforward but also rather inefficient, often leaving multiple dependencies all over the system and replacing system required versions with ABI incompatible ones. Debian packages handle, amongst other things, dependencies, configuration, upgrade paths, documentation, and common file placement. As a result, they are more complicated to produce. http://doc.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/packagingguide/C/index.html describes the Ubuntu Packaging system. You should also look at the Debian Policy and Packaging Guide, and https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU . > I've not written any code on Linux for about 5 years, and I'm hopeful > the world has moved on, but last time I was coding, there were far > better IDEs available on Windows. I'm sure you could use an IDE, but I don't personally see the need. The availability of many terminal-based utilities makes the UNIX console a vastly more powerful development environment than anything Windows-based I've ever seen, unless you're doing GUI work; where an IDE is useful, and I'm sure an IDE can also provide access to the console. However, packages aren't GUI-based, and thus using the console and an editor is handy; especially since you'll want to learn about pbuilder and debhelper. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
