Folks, I'm forwarding a not-so-old video in which Garrett Serack from Microsoft explains an interesting project at Microsoft from yet an interesting angle:
http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Garrett-Serack-Open-Source-on-Windows-and-the-CoApp-Project I've just discovered the CoApp project, so perhaps it's a known thing here. >From what I have figured out by reading blogs, and articles about CoApp, it handles package management for Software Developers and Users. Packages are installed at a system level, intending to be shared between applications without limiting their scope to a single project at a time (sounds like Linux /usr and /usr/local filesystems). It offers update service that allows all packages on the system to be kept up to date, etc. CoApp is also being developed for use by C/C++ applications, .NET, Python, PHP, Perl, etc. I think it may be interesting to initiatives like OSGeo4W here. CoApp recently moved to GitHub. Here is a quick overview with instruction of use: http://fearthecowboy.com/2011/04/26/weve-moved-coapp-code-hosting-to-github/ Best regards, -- Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net Charter Member of OSGeo, http://osgeo.org Member of ACCU, http://accu.org _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
