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[Rick Spencer <rick.spencer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 21:19 +0000, Shane Fagan wrote:
> msdn is just a learning platform but the IDE that contains the packaging
> tools and prefered development environment is the thing that we need I
> think. The idea I think mpt was getting across was can we say if you
> want to get started in ubuntu install this and it does everything you
> will need to do for your development. So at the moment quickly has a
> template system an installer ppa..etc that is great but I think the big
> idea in the development world is having that in one program which is
> typically an IDE. 

The point of looking at mdsn is to see how many different kinds of
programming there are a platform like Windows or Ubuntu. What does "get
started" mean? My point is that it's cut and dry for small form factor
platforms with onely 1 or 2 types of apps, but not cut and dry for
Ubuntu.

Also, having an IDE is neither necessary nor sufficient for having an
end to end developer solution. Also note that Microsoft has multiple
tools, some within and some not within Visual Studio, and many many
developers write applications for Windows without using VS or any IDE,
including the developers who write Windows and VS itself. 

Cheers, Rick