packaging Free Software on Windows: Re: Microsoft CoApp

[Ralf Habacker]

Bill Hoffman schrieb:
> 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.   
This topic could also be a thread on the planned KDE Windows developer 
sprint this year.

May be someone could prepare a session with the facts, motivation and 
possible solutions.

Regards
 Ralf