Garrett Serack wrote:
This is certainly something we can examine during the appcompat lab.
There is still tools for building from the command line, (MSBuild,
VCBuild), but they aren’t much like make... more like Ant.
I am always trying to use NMake on those platforms.
Command line tools are very interesting because they can be use in
scripts that are used in automated builds.
Cheers
Jean-Frederic
G
-----Original Message-----
From: Issac Goldstand [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 2:40 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Windows Server 2008 Application Compatibility Lab Invitation
This is probably all the way at the bottom of your priority list, but I
figure it can't hurt to mention - what about a decent command line build
solution; IIRC, one of the (very minor) reasons we're still with VC6 is
the ability to create a Makefile, which recent VS suites no longer
support...
Issac
William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote:
I'm planning to attend to address issues on several fronts, and I hear
some PHP folks will make it as well. It might be a really good chance
to start digging deeper into the interop issues with MSVCR runtimes,
so if there is a modperl dev or two who are interested, I'd love to
spend some of this time working on those specifics.
Bill
Garrett Serack wrote:
Howdy,
My name is Garrett Serack, and I am the Community Program Manager in
the Open
Source Software Labs here at Microsoft.
I would like to extend an official invitation to the Apache Software
Foundation
to participate in the Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Compatibility
Labs here
in Redmond. The Compatibility lab is scheduled for
Monday February 25 2008 through Wednesday February 28 2008.
(the lab is actually booked thru Thurs the 29th, so an extra day is
possible)
WHAT IS IT?
-----------
The Windows Server 2008 Application Compatibility Lab is an event
where we
invite companies to bring their applications into our lab, and have the
opportunity to perform compatibility testing with Windows Server
2008. In
addition to gaining insight into Windows Server 2008, this also includes
unprecedented access to various product groups (developers,
architects and PMs)
inside of Microsoft, who can lend their assistance, give technical
information
and answer design questions you may have.
Normally, we request companies send 3-4 attendees, and we usually
have 3-4
companies in the lab in a given week. Given the ASF's size and
breadth, we've
reserved the entire lab for the week for the Apache Foundation, and
we'd like
to see somewhere in the range of 15-18 people from a wide variety of
projects
attend.
WHO SHOULD COME?
----------------
We would be very interested in having several people from the Tomcat,
HTTPD and
Axis groups attend. Other projects including APR, Apache C++
Standard Library
project, Harmony, and Maven.NET also come to mind. Any project that
is impacted
by the release of Windows 2008, or is looking to solve
Windows-specific project
issues, may profit from this opportunity.
We are interested in having each project who deals with Microsoft
Windows
compatibility or portability to bring small contingent of 1 or 2
developers to
the table, so please chat within your own PMC or even your dev@ list
first to
determine who is most interested in attending this camp on behalf of
your
project. Space is constrained, and we'd like to ensure that specific
attention
can be given to projects that need it.
WHAT'S THE COST?
----------------
The cost of the event itself is being handled by our team (the Open
Source
Software Lab), all you have to do is actually get here. Some travel
assistance
by Microsoft will be available (hotel/airfare), *if* your employer can't
pick up such costs. As my budget is limited, how much travel
assistance we can
provide is linked to how many need to avail themselves of it. If you
don't
need a subsidy, hotels can still be booked at MS's corp rate at most
nearby,
saving some money.
WHAT IS THE PROCESS?
--------------------
To track interest, please register for this event in the subversion file
https://svn.apache.org/repos/private/committers/hackathons/port25-08/attending.txt
and send me an email with the following information:
Full Name:
Street Address:
Phone Number:
Email Address:
ASF Projects Involved in:
Travel Assistance Required: (full/part/none)
Product Groups you wish to get access to:
Any technical aspects you'd like to address:
INSIGHT
-------
You might be interested in the "political" rational of why we value
this chance
to meet some of the ASF developers and help them work through Windows
compatibility issues. You can see Sam Ramji's blog entry about why we
asked
Mozilla out:
http://port25.technet.com/archive/2006/09/20/Why-I-invited-Mozilla.aspx
Garrett Serack | Open Source Community Lead | Microsoft Corporation
Office:(425)706-7939
email/messenger: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
blog: http://fearthecowboy.com
