On Sat, 2006-10-14 at 10:49 +0200, Tim Beaulen wrote:
> InstallShield for Linux exists. > And if people can make money out of it on Windows and Mac, then they > can on Linux too. installshield makes money because of the dozens/hundreds/thousands of applications developed by ISV's for windows and the market for a reliable, familiar installer that this has created. that market doesn't exist for linux, because there is hardly any ISVs writing software for linux, and most linux apps are packaged and distributed via distribution-controlled mechanisms. > > I want to write Photoshop: > > I need: > > - Graphics lib > > - Color management > > - UI > > - ... > > > > And I just link one to another. > > That's not programming (at least for me). > > this particular description is so naive, its really not even > worth > commenting on. > > Maybe it is, but maybe you could tell me why it is naive? > You know, if you don't tell me, I can't change my mind and see it from > a different perspective. i am the primary author of a very complex digital audio workstation called Ardour, which is could be thought of as a kind of audio equivalent of Photoshop/GIMP (though the analogy is imperfect as most analogies are). the idea that to write Ardour you just need a graphics lib, an audio API, a UI and then you link it all together, and that this is not programming .... its worse than naive, its insulting. Writing *good* graphical UI applications is very, very hard. It is *never* about linking together the functionality of N libraries, although clearly their functionality is important. --p _______________________________________________ Desktop_architects mailing list Desktop_architects@lists.osdl.org https://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop_architects
