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Quickly 0.4.1 is out!

0.4.1 is a bug fixing release and will be the one in lucid final. It contains of course all the goodness of 0.4 version plus some bug fixes that early users encountered: remove ~/.selected_editor detection. Introduced confusion for users who doesn't understand why (nano, most of the time), was triggered instead of gedit (LP: #565586). It's still possible to override the choosen editor with EDITOR or SELECTED_EDITOR environment variables. fix gpg key creation with no email address.

Quickly 0.4 available in lucid!

I'm proud to announce the availability of Quickly 0.4 in lucid. This new release brings shiny new features (more than 6 months of heavy development), lowering again the barrier for opportunistic developers. Development should just be easy and fun! Thanks to all awesome contributors making this release happened: Philip Peitsch, Petar Vasić, Jens Persson, Łukasz Jernaś Brian, Jonathan Lange and Shane Fagan. Special kudos to Rick Spencer for his continue devotion to opportunistic development and making quickly-widgets.

Build your application quickly with Quickly: Inside Quickly part 9

We are now almost ready to land! Here is the last part of this long suit of blog posts about Quickly. Packaging your project It's the last, but not the least issue when you are writing your software: once your application is functional, you surely want to enable other users to install it. Well, you can give it into a tar.gz and run from a trunk, but what about creating a nice package, containing all dependency information for you[1]?

Build your application quickly with Quickly: Inside Quickly part 8

You have now your amazing and remarkable new Quickly "ubuntu-project" templated project but don't know how to start hacking on it? Here are some tips for you, just there, keep on! Modifying your ubuntu-project edit command Quickly edit is a convenient command to open all of your python files contained in your project in your default editor, ready for editing. Just run: $ quickly edit anywhere in your project tree.

Build your application quickly with Quickly: Inside Quickly part 7

We previously saw the general concepts around Quickly and more particular its core. So, now, it's time to dive into the different commands of the first Quickly template which is ubuntu-project. What brings me ubuntu-project template? To make programming easy and fun, we've made some opinionated[1] choices about what tools, apis, etc.. to use. In a nutshell: Python for the language pygtk for the UI framework Glade for the UI editor Gedit for the code editor (though this is easy for you to change if you choose another one) bzr for version control Launchpad for code hosting desktopcouch for storage/database (!

Build your application quickly with Quickly: Inside Quickly part 6

This post will make a little pause in Quickly features reviewing to focus on the template creation. Ever wanted to create your own Quickly template, or to modify slightly the existing ubuntu-project template to make different choices? This part is for you! If you aren't interested, we will begin the ubuntu-project template description next week, see you there! Quickly Templates General stuff Templates can be written in whatever language you want.

Build your application quickly with Quickly: Inside Quickly part 5

That will be the last part for user on the Quickly Core itself. Before jumping on the ubuntu-project description road, we will see miscellaneous stuff that I couldn't classified later. Miscellaneous Well, Quickly options are quite sparse for the moment (as we don't need more as of today), so, here are what can be useful for you: Help $ quickly --help Of course, as the man page, this will give you the most important information you will certainly need :)

Build your application quickly with Quickly: Inside Quickly part 4

Yeah! It's already the 4th zoom of your Quickly trip and it's about shell completion. Complete everything quickly Quickly has an advanced shell completion tool. Currently, it's only binded to bash but plans are up to catch other shells (it's very easy, just call quickly shell-completion $0 from a script and perform little black magic to know the context). You can reread part 2 if you want to understand every cases described below.

Build your application quickly with Quickly: Inside Quickly part 3

Here we go for another topic on Quickly tour! This chapter will be really fast to read compared to last one. Getting some help with Quickly Quickly has an builtin help command that can help you to retreive help from whenever command. Inside a project You can search directly help for builtin command and the ones from the associated template of your project. template commands In a ubuntu-project "templated" project, simply do: