[Gambas-user] Solving the Gambas packaging problem psychologically (!)

[Rolf-Werner Eilert]

Am 06.01.2014 18:35, schrieb Benoît Minisini:
> Yeah, great mail subject!
>
> I think it will be more difficult for Linux distributions to fail
> packaging Gambas correctly if there is a useful tool made in Gambas
> (other than the IDE) that will be integrated inside package repositories
> because people use it.
>
> What do you think about that?
>
> Do you think that extracting the image editor of the IDE and make a
> simple but powerful "Paint" program from it could be a good idea?
>
> That tool should be QT4/GTK+ agnostic of course.
>
> Regards,
>

Hmmm - if you think of graphics, what about a tool like TerraGen / 
TerraMaker? I know it's been made with VB, and a lot of people use it 
for designing landscapes. TerraMaker has an export to POV and Blender, 
so this would be something similar to our universe. At least this is not 
#600 image editing software :)

And if not graphics, what about a tool for serial letters which simply 
runs reliably (in contrary to the usual text crunchers available)? It 
could include an easy-to-operate interface to different data sources 
(from simple tables to database etc.) and combine these with a text 
(from the richtext editor) to PDF output.

Regards
Rolf