A Fundação Linux acaba de lançar a aplicação AppChecker – The Linux Application Checker –, que irá fazer a felicidade de programadores de aplicações e especialmente dos ISV’s (Vendedores independentes de software) para GNU/Linux.
Mas para que serve a AppChecker?
Em poucas palavras, serve para tornar mais fácil a portabilidade.
Ou seja, serve para que se possa aferir se o que um programador acaba de desenvolver ou se software que um ISV se prepara para colocar no mercado cumpre com as regras estabelecidas pelo LSB.
Ela vai verificar numa base de dados diferentes versões de LSB e diversas distros na base de dados de LSB, após isso, apresenta um relatório sobre as compatibilidades do software em relação à LSB e às distros.
All About the Linux Application Checker | Linux Developer Network
Specifically, AppChecker performs these functions:
* Checks for cross-distro portability and gives a good indication of how well the app may perform on various distributions of Linux
* Gives guidance for application developers on how to enhance the portability of their applications
* Gives a good indication of how close the app is to LSB certification
All About the Linux Application Checker | Linux Developer Network
The Linux Application Checker (also referred to as “AppChecker”) is a powerful new tool designed to help software developers target Linux. It draws on the extensive testing framework developed by the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Linux Foundation and leverages the work of the Linux Standard Base (LSB) workgroup.
Linux.com :: Linux Foundation launches killer development tool
Ask any independent software vendor what he hates most about developing for Linux and he’ll tell you that it’s having to develop for SUSE and for Red Hat and for Ubuntu and … you get the idea. The Linux Foundation has just released a beta of a new program, Linux Application Checker (AppChecker), that’s going to make ISVs and other programmers start to love developing for Linux.
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