Canonical Releases "Quickly" Framework to Speed Up Linux App Development
Canonical Releases "Quickly" Framework to Speed Up Linux App Development
Posted 08/25/2009 at 6:25am
| by Paul Lilly
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Good news for open-source developers. Canonical, the makers of Ubuntu, have launched a new project called "Quickly" that purports to make the process of developing and deploying Linux much easier, Arstechnica reports. It does this by providing a framework for generating code projects, storing any changes in version control, building packages, and releasing finished software.
The project is built around a template system to help users build applications with Python and Glade. Not surprisingly, the default template -- called ubuntu-project -- is geared towards building applications for Ubuntu, but the Quickly container can support other tools and development technologies. It was designed that other templates are easy to write.
Want to try making a Quickly project yourself? Check out this tutorial.
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lien_meat
August 25, 2009 at 8:33am
This makes me VERY happy. Now I can finally probably finish all those great ubuntu apps that I never had time to finish because I didn't understand all the steps to getting it DONE. You can bet I'll be programming wizards and programs to help with configuration like crazy in the coming months as this reaches higher levels of maturity. See, I like python a lot, but I primarily spend my time programming web applications in php, cause it's my job, and I never got a good idea of how to do a good job binding background python or C code to a glade gui and have it work really well, so I never actually finished any of the tons of projects i've got started. Maybe this will fix that issue for me.
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