Thread: Development is too hard. Help me - help you.
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rambo is offline rambo
2010-03-12 , 13:27
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#30
Originally Posted by FBergeron View Post
Wait until you want to package and release your application in the repositories. For me, that was the hardest part. It was a real pain. Once you succeed, it's ok (or so I think). Anyway, don't give up! Eventually, it will work...
I didn't have trouble settign scratchbox up, but OTOH I have made it many times (been doing this since 770 times...).

Debian packaging can indeed be tedious but OTOH requiring the developer to spend an extra effort on making sure all dependencies etc are properly listed allows the users have much smoother experience when installing.

Thus spending two extra hours of developer time is easily worth saving a minute of each users time.