RE: Minutes of the Board meeting June 15 2003

[Murray Cumming Comneon com]

> The development documentation is somewhat lacking. Especially critical
> is the lack of tutorial type docs explaining how to start writing a
> Gnome program (having a reasonable template for autoconf, going over
> what tools to use and so on).

gnome-hello exists and should be up-to-date.

> Getting over that first hurdle is likely
> the most difficult step for anyone to become a Gnome developer, and
> cannot be made too easy and clear.

In reality we cannot tell people how best to write a GNOME App because we
don't really know that ourselves. It might or might not involve libbonoboui,
which few people really want to recommend at the moment.

Murray Cumming
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www.murrayc.com