packaging Free Software on Windows: Re: Microsoft CoApp

[Patrick Spendrin]

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Am 13.04.2010 00:05, schrieb Bill Hoffman:
> 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

I still haven't looked into it, will probably look into it today.

> 
> 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?

- - chm
- - cyrus-sasl
- - djvu
- - ebook-tools (libepub)
- - exiv
- - expat*
- - fontconfig
- - freetype
- - giflib*
- - jpeg7*
- - jasper
- - libbzip2*
- - libidn
- - liblzma
- - libxml2*
- - libxslt*
- - openslp
- - redland
- - shared-mime-info
- - sqlite*
- - win_iconv*
- - zlib*

Not all of them are up to date, some more might be added in the near
future (* means recent additions).

> 
> -Bill

regards,
Patrick

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