From kde-windows Tue Apr 13 15:56:50 2010 From: Pau Garcia i Quiles Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:56:50 +0000 To: kde-windows Subject: Re: packaging Free Software on Windows: Re: Microsoft CoApp Message-Id: X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-windows&m=127117426407972 Hello, According to Garrett (the MS guy) on IRC, CoApp is going to use an approach similar to ExternalProject_Add from CMake. He is going to use some tools he already has ( http://gstoolkit.codeplex.com ) because he says CMake is limited in that regard. Actually, Garrett told me you were at Microsoft campus that very day and you two were goint to talk. How did it go? On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 12:05 AM, Bill Hoffman wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > Kde-windows mailing list > Kde-windows@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-windows > -- Pau Garcia i Quiles http://www.elpauer.org (Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer) _______________________________________________ Kde-windows mailing list Kde-windows@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-windows