Quickly is a framework for creating software programs for a

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using Python, PyGTK, Glade Interface Designer and

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. It then allows for easy publishing using bzr and

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. Quickly is designed to speed up the start of new projects with the use of templates, not only for programs but for any type of project. These templates are used to automate project configuration and maintenance. Delegating into templates and not into a specific library allows projects created using Quickly not to require dependencies on any particular library or runtime of Quickly itself. The project was started by Rick Spencer after his frustration as a beginner Ubuntu developer.

Updates

* Last available softwar
update
is on 2013-01-31 for Ubuntu 11.04.

References

Developing applications "Quickly"
* README of package release. Programming tools {{soft-eng-stub