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

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Acquiring and rebuilding C++ libraries on Windows
From: Michael Powell (mwpowellhtx_at_[hidden])
Date: 2016-07-07 18:30:26

On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 6:05 PM, Eric Mittelette <ericmitt_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> Hi Edward
>
> Acquiring in my message mean, the way to developers to build an external lib and add it to his project.
> So our intention is to provide a command line tool (in first approach) who is capable to list and build libraries for windows platform.
> Developers can use this tools to see which libraries are available and with a simple option strt the buil process for the target chosen (x86, x64 UWP, ARM)
> eric

Trying to fix a non-problem IMO; what's wrong with (your choice of
source control and/or submodule refreshing, i.e. "Git"), configure,
make, etc, procedure?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Boost-users [mailto:boost-users-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of Edward Diener
> Sent: Wednesday, July 6, 2016 4:33 AM
> To: boost-users_at_[hidden]
> Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Acquiring and rebuilding C++ libraries on Windows
>
> On 7/5/2016 7:49 PM, Eric Mittelette wrote:
>> Hello
>>
>>
>>
>> I'm Program Manager at Microsoft, working on VC++ Libraries team (VC
>> runtime, STL...)
>>
>> 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 ?
>
>>
>> We are targeting mainly OSS libraries, our tool will help dev to
>> rebuild locally from the source code on Windows.
>>
>>
>>
>> Today we have a proto, based on a port tree approach. (having a repo
>> with the build script and the associated patch file)
>>
>> I wanted to have a discussion with the Boost community about this
>> project, and how dev could acquire Boost this way.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Eric Mittelette
>>
>> Senior Program Manager - Visual C++ (VCLib)
>>
>> Microsoft Corp.
>
>
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