packaging Free Software on Windows: Re: Microsoft CoApp

[Carlo]

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Patrick Spendrin <ps_ml at gmx.de> wrote:
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> Am 13.04.2010 11:38, schrieb Ralf Habacker:
>> Patrick Spendrin schrieb:
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>>>> 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).
>>>
>>>
>> Do you know how many packages are using a non cmake build system and
>> which ? This is important to estimate how much work is still required to
>> migrate the remaining.
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> Just counted them (also see emerge/portage/win32libs-sources/TODO):
> 5 msys
> 3 binary
>
> 2 special (probably not needed to be ported, as these provide working
> buildsystems for all platforms - boost and openssl).

boost can be built using cmake too