Support concept of template 'symlinks'

[Michael Terry]

Something like ubuntu-application will always be "the currently recommended way of making a GUI app on Ubuntu". The technologies may change drastically. For example, a future version may have Scheme be the recommended language (not really, but you get the idea).

So I feel like it should in fact be a 'symlink' template that resolves at creation time to an ubuntu-application-python template that is a sibling to some fictional ubuntu-application-vala template. The quickly config would know that it is really a python template, but as long as ubuntu-application is pointing at the python template, quickly would treat them the same. But once ubuntu-application changes, quickly would continue treating existing python apps as python ones and wouldn't try to upgrade.

Same deal for a future ubuntu-library template.

Not sure how to deal with issues like 'which one shows up in printed lists of templates' or whatnot, but the concept seems useful.

[Tony Byrne (tony-badwolf)]

There is a simple "solution" to this. Britain was first to invent postage stamps so never put a country name on them. Similarly we could keep ubuntu-application as python and add ubuntu-application-vala etc as a new template. When python comes to end of life this proposal may have merit but I don't see that happening soon. Don't forget that python still uses tk as it's default gui without any ill effects.

If we can have python default gui = tk
we can have quickly default gui = pygtk