Hi Team Ansca,
Please would you port Corona SDK onto the Linux platform? For many, Linux is the preferred OS and it would be good to be able to develop on it without having to switch to Mac OS or Windows. Pretty please :’(
How possible would that be?
Thanks 
Lloyd [import]uid: 52069 topic_id: 18301 reply_id: 318301[/import]
+1
I supose that is only possible to build for Android… But only this would be wonderful.
J.O.C.F. [import]uid: 70922 topic_id: 18301 reply_id: 70221[/import]
The question would be, why only build for Android? The dominant platform is Apple. I’m glad I have a Mac, and never looked back. I can build for all platforms. If someone is in the app business, iOS is mandatory. $1K for a basic apple machine is just the cost of doing business. If you have your own LCD monitor & keyboard, get a Mac Mini for $600. macconnection.com has Mac’s on sale.
I’m running VMWare Fusion on my iMac and can run Linux, Windows XP or 7 all at the same time on OSX.
Please don’t flame me if you are one of the few very successful Android only developers. :7)
-David
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While you have to have a Mac to build for device, you can certainly code and test for iOS on a Windows box. But I could see having a Linux option. The only reason I have Win7 on my one laptop is Photoshop. Everything else I could possibly want to do on that laptop would be as good as, if not better with Ubuntu Linux.
But I’m going to play devils advocate. Ansca is already having to deal with two radically different development environments to build their products on. Asking them to take on a 3rd environment given all the other things we need first, I wouldn’t go there yet.
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+1
Although, being a linux user for a few years now, I can guarantee you that Ansca will never port Corona to linux, even though it could probably share a lot of code with the Mac port and all the required libraries are also probably in most distros. I mean, they came from Adobe, and we all know how much they “like” linux.
That said, it would be a great feature in our office since we do all of our development/graphical work on ubuntu machines and then have a few Macs laying around for running Corona and building apps. [import]uid: 61899 topic_id: 18301 reply_id: 72192[/import]
+100500
iOS is cool. But there is an millions of Android developers who prefer Linux bases systems.
$600 is price in US. In Russia Mac price is about $2000, PC price is about $500.
Be global.
Thanks.
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Have any of you tried running corona via crossover ?
http://www.codeweavers.com/products/crossover/
Or wine?
Another solution would be to install windows xp on virtual box inside your Linux installation. Runs fantastic (even windows 7 does) [import]uid: 84637 topic_id: 18301 reply_id: 88640[/import]
Running it on Linux in a Windows virtual box while it will work, doesn’t address the fact that you’re still running Windows and there are a couple of problems with that.
A lot of Linux users build their own hardware. Getting a box version of windows is a huge Tax for people not buying it pre-installed from your box stores. We also tend to buy used hardware that may not have an OS installed or a very corrupted one. Linux is a great way to salvage these still perfectly usable machines.
More importantly, Linux is a great web development platform. The editors available, the ability to easily run Apache/MySQL/PHP just like your web hosting, so you can very visually and easily develop network content.
If I was an Android only developer, I’d be asking for this as well.
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Anybody knows why Ansca doesn’t want Corona in Linux? (not a suppose).
Costs? Strategy? Anything else?
As Corona Embassador this will be my first battle… among others like píxel management…
Please, Corona SDK in Linux included in roadmap (and my WinXP can be destroyed).
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Regards,
J.O.C.F.
Inkubica Labs [import]uid: 70922 topic_id: 18301 reply_id: 88845[/import]
I don’t believe that Ansca doesn’t WANT it on Linux. After all, its another avenue of revenue which is a good thing but is it enough revenue to pursue.
They are a small staff and only have limited programming band-width. Linux isn’t a cross-compile. All of the UI pieces are going to have to be KDE, Gnome, or Unity and that takes someone with knowledge and time to build. So from a pure development time, Linux is a big project that needs specific knowledge that they probably do not have on their staff right now.
They would have to hire a programmer, and just for fun I’m going to say its a $75,000 programmer (bay area, that may be low) so by the time you get benefits, its over $100,000 a year for that programmer. They would have to sell 300 pro licenses just to pay for one programmer. If you consider Indie only licenses (can’t build for iOS anyway), so many people would want to just do Android, skipping Nook and Fire and look at the Linux market more likely spending $200 a copy, then have to sell 500 licenses to break even. I’m not sure there are enough Linux developers to justify the expense.
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