From kde-windows  Mon Apr 12 22:05:04 2010
From: Bill Hoffman <bill.hoffman () kitware ! com>
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 22:05:04 +0000
To: kde-windows
Subject: Re: packaging Free Software on Windows: Re: Microsoft CoApp
Message-Id: <4BC39910.8020207 () kitware ! com>
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Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> Am Freitag, 9. April 2010 10:58:18 schrieb Pau Garcia i Quiles:
> http://blogs.msdn.com/garretts/archive/2010/03/31/the-common-opensource-application-publishing-platform-coapp.aspx
> 
> The idea is interesting: Better support to handle depedencies and to build and 
> deploy Free Software on Windows. Yes, with MSI files.
> And this is done by a Microsoft employee in the day job.
> 


> The overview urls are: 
> http://Launchpad.net/coapp 
> and the wiki at http://CoApp.org.
> 
> 

It would be a good idea if some KDE Windows folks joined in on the 
conversation:
https://lists.launchpad.net/coapp-developers/threads.html

There will be some overlap with KDE windows, and a real package manager 
supported by MS, would be great for all of us.   If it could leverage as 
much CMake as possible that would be even better.   What is the current 
list of "cmakeified" third party stuff that is done for KDE windows?

-Bill
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