Hi, Some time ago, I posted about the CoApp project to Discuss [1]. After last updates in the project, I think it is a good idea to post reminder, as I think it has potential for OSGeo4W.
For those who don't know what CoApp is, here is video with a good overview [2] Recently, CoApp teamed up with NuGet to develop support for native packages. Garrett Serack, lead developer, posted long awaited update [3] about this initiative. I think that it may be useful to take a look at CoApp and consider it as packaging platform while reviewing current status of OSGeo4W. CoApp embraces Microsoft's technologies (like side-by-side assemblies) that have been unknown, neglected and avoided but which solve many problems related to deployment, versioning and dependencies, etc. For example, it reduces or eliminates the well-known DLL hell problems. I have been watching CoApp for some time and despite I haven't done any production-ready packaging myself yet, I think CoApp has great potential and future for FOSS packaging. OSGeo4W could benefit of CoApp adoption. [1] http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2011-November/009825.html [2] http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Garrett-Serack-Open-Source-on-Windows-and-the-CoApp-Project [3] http://coapp.org/news/2013-03-27-The-Long-Awaited-post.html Best regards, -- Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net _______________________________________________ osgeo4w-dev mailing list osgeo4w-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/osgeo4w-dev
