Star Linux Foundation Launches Killer Development Tool
Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Fri 8th Aug 2008 03:58 UTC
Linux "The Linux Foundation has just released a beta of a new program, Linux Application Checker (AppChecker), that's going to make independent software vendors and other programmers start to love developing for Linux." This program checks your application against different versions of the Linux Standard Base (LSB), and against all the Linux distributions in the LSB Database. After the test is done it will present a report about the compatibility status of your application with the various distributions, and which external libraries and interfaces your application uses.
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RE: Sounds good
by kaiwai on Fri 8th Aug 2008 08:01 UTC in reply to "Sounds good"
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Let's hope this doesn't just effect professional developers, but hobbyists too. All too often, I find myself trying to compile source code knowing nothing about the dependencies.


Or worse, you download the source, and the original programmer assumed that certain things are installed - and thus, never mention them as dependencies. I remember when I was compiling things on Solaris there would be atleast 5 different dependencies the maintainers would never mention in their website.

One would assume that these people, with atleast a minimal university programming skill set would remember the cardinal rule of 'never make assumptions about the end users computer configuration".

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