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

[Benoît Minisini]

Le 07/01/2014 13:17, Rolf-Werner Eilert a écrit :
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> 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?
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>> 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?
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>> That tool should be QT4/GTK+ agnostic of course.
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>> Regards,
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> 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 :)
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> 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
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Well... I have no idea of you are talking about, but it seems great. :-)

As for the 601th image editor, there is no simple image editor on Linux 
that I like. What I did in the IDE is sort of one I want, but not 
perfect yet.

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Benoît Minisini