Proposed F19 Feature: Developers Assistant

[Miloslav Trmač]

On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 9:14 AM, Jan Zelený <jzeleny at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 28. 1. 2013 at 14:28:06, Bill Nottingham wrote:
>> Michael Scherer (misc at zarb.org) said:
>> > Le lundi 28 janvier 2013 à 15:27 +0100, Jan Zelený a écrit :
>> > > Currently we are working on some proof-of-concept stuff. But as an
>> > > example, you can imagine a script for creation of C program templates.
>> > > You will specify directory where it should create the program and
>> > > (possibly) some specifics, like "I want to use threads" or "I need glib
>> > > support".
>> > >
>> > > On output of that script you will have a template of C program with
>> > > Makefile and you can start coding right away, no need for preparing the
>> > > environment first.
>> >
>> > Something like https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Quickly ?
>> >
>> > Some work have been started by Mathieu bridon and Didier Roche for
>> > quickly on Fedora a few years ago. Not sure where it went, but this
>> > would be easier to use it rather than start from scratch.
>>
>> Do we know whether our target users for these quick-onroad scripts are using
>> the commandline vs something like Eclipse? Just curious where the
>> bang-for-the-buck is.
>
> Actually we want to address both. Use cases for Eclipse users will be
> addressed in second stage of the project, hopefully utilizing whatever we
> produce.

Eclipse already has some of this, see e.g.
http://wiki.eclipse.org/CDT/Autotools/User_Guide .
    Mirek