Re: [Boost-users] Acquiring and rebuilding C++ libraries on Windows

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Acquiring and rebuilding C++ libraries on Windows
From: Edward Diener (eldiener_at_[hidden])
Date: 2016-07-06 07:32:34

On 7/5/2016 7:49 PM, Eric Mittelette wrote:
> Hello
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> I’m Program Manager at Microsoft, working on VC++ Libraries team (VC
> runtime, STL…)
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> We are working on the spec of a tool to acquire 3^rd party libraries on
> Windows.

"acquire 3^rd party libraries on Windows" ?

I am unfamiliar with what this is supposed to mean ? Outside of the 
programming world, "acquire" usually means "buy", but I don't think that 
even Microsoft wants to buy something that is not being sold <g>.

Perhaps you need to explain what your intentions are ?

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> We are targeting mainly OSS libraries, our tool will help dev to rebuild
> locally from the source code on Windows.
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> Today we have a proto, based on a port tree approach. (having a repo
> with the build script and the associated patch file)
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> I wanted to have a discussion with the Boost community about this
> project, and how dev could acquire Boost this way.
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> Feel free to contact me to initiate this discussion, we’ll be happy to
> share our idea and prototype with you and collect feedback and suggestions.
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> Best,
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> Eric Mittelette
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> Senior Program Manager – Visual C++ (VCLib)
>
> Microsoft Corp.