14 DAY TRIAL // The UbuCon Summit 2016 has ended, and now the Ubuntu developers have returned to their workspaces to continue working on their great projects. Didier Roche informs us today, January 28, about the release of a new version of his awesome Ubuntu Make tool.
Programmers, rejoice! Ubuntu Make 16.01.2 is here, and it sports some cool new features, such as support for Apple's open-source Swift programming language, which you can easily install on your Ubuntu Linux operating system using the "umake swift" command.
Support for the Swift programming language has been contributed by Galileo Sartor, who has also implemented support for installing the Eclipse PHP and Eclipse C/C++ IDEs (Integrated Development Environments) in this brand new release of the Ubuntu Make software.
"Last week, during UbuCon Summit, I had the pleasure to announce in sunny Pasadena a new Ubuntu Make release! Marking the 16.01.2 milestone, this one provides thanks to community contributions 3 new supported frameworks," says Didier Roche, developer of Ubuntu Make.
Here's how to install Ubuntu Make
There's another great contribution in Ubuntu Make 16.01.2, this time from Evan McIntire, who has managed to implement support for man pages generated straight from the --help option, thus allowing developers to have up-to-date man pages for the supported software. And now, we can't wait for the next version of Ubuntu Make to see what new features have been implemented.
The Ubuntu Make software is a command-line application, and you can install it on Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf), Ubuntu 15.04 (Vivid Vervet), and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) operating systems by running the commands below in the Terminal app, one by one, hitting the Enter key after each one. Ubuntu Make is also available in the default software repositories of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus).
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y ubuntu-make