Brussels / 1 & 2 February 2014

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DevAssistant - What's in it for You?

A brief introduction of DevAssistant project


DevAssistant aims at making developers' lives easier. It can kickstart new projects, work with existing projects and prepare environment for development of upstream projects. We want DevAssistant to become a standard developer tool across all major Linux distributions. This presentation will introduce you to DevAssistant concept, will discuss DevAssistant internals and show you how to use it.

DevAssistant is a new project that aims at making developers' lives easier by automation of repetitive and time consuming tasks. It uses assistants, Yaml "recipe files", that contain information on how to create new projects, modify existing projects and how to setup environment for development of upstream projects. DevAssistant features include: * dependency installation * scaffolding source code for new projects or checking out source code from SCM * setting up environment on developer's machine DevAssistant is written in Python and it features a command line interface and gtk+ GUI.

Speakers

Slavek Kabrda

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