Hand coding will always have the upper hand for the competent.
Especially when incorporating new technologies and techniques.
Good code/system design, IDEs with syntax highlighting and other helper functions, build/verify tools (grunt/jslint/etc) and frameworks are the things that will accelerate developement.
Frameworks like jQuery UI will take care of different browser hacks like design tools can help with, for example.
Yeah, I understand.
I think we're both trying to achieve the same thing from different standpoints.
I was thinking more along the lines of, assuming there would be a GUI for the package manager (which most package managers have): Package Manager -> Install Application -> Dialog: Insert CD -> (detect CD-insertion through HAL) -> Fetch required files from CD ->...
Optionally, if users want to do it the Windows-way, maybe the autorun.ini should contain Linux-related sections which could instruct the desktop environment to spawn the proper package manager.
These are just ideas, but the bottom line is that I don't think a distribution-wide standard is neither feasible nor necessary.
Intelligent package managers shouldn't (necessary) need a properly archived package if the distributor doesn't provide it.
Instead, make a standard for distributing distribution-neutral applications (or material) and let the package managers add support for it.
Well. at least Gentoo has a solution for this today.
When you install Cedega or sun-jdk for example, the ebuild fails if you don't provide the files you bought/downloaded.
Why wouldn't this work for Adobe Photoshop as well?
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Hand coding will always have the upper hand for the competent. Especially when incorporating new technologies and techniques. Good code/system design, IDEs with syntax highlighting and other helper functions, build/verify tools (grunt/jslint/etc) and frameworks are the things that will accelerate developement. Frameworks like jQuery UI will take care of different browser hacks like design tools can help with, for example.
Have you looked at O3Spaces? http://o3spaces.org/ Not free, but a limited community edition is available for free.
So someone finally saw 'The Game' with Michael Douglas?
Get Ready.. for huge licensing costs! Get Ready.. for 10 new bugs per feature! Don't get ready.. get Linux.
.. comes great responsibility!
I don't really give a fork.
Yeah, I understand. I think we're both trying to achieve the same thing from different standpoints. I was thinking more along the lines of, assuming there would be a GUI for the package manager (which most package managers have): Package Manager -> Install Application -> Dialog: Insert CD -> (detect CD-insertion through HAL) -> Fetch required files from CD -> ...
Optionally, if users want to do it the Windows-way, maybe the autorun.ini should contain Linux-related sections which could instruct the desktop environment to spawn the proper package manager.
These are just ideas, but the bottom line is that I don't think a distribution-wide standard is neither feasible nor necessary.
Intelligent package managers shouldn't (necessary) need a properly archived package if the distributor doesn't provide it.
Instead, make a standard for distributing distribution-neutral applications (or material) and let the package managers add support for it.
Well. at least Gentoo has a solution for this today. When you install Cedega or sun-jdk for example, the ebuild fails if you don't provide the files you bought/downloaded. Why wouldn't this work for Adobe Photoshop as well?