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: 2016-07-07 19:56:22

On 7/7/2016 6:05 PM, Eric Mittelette 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)

What does this command line tool use to build an external lib ? What 
does "lib" as in "external lib" encompass ? What does "project" mean ?
What programming languages are supported ?

I gather you are saying that you are endeavouring to create a command 
line tool to build a "lib" from source, which is on the web somewhere, 
and then integrate the resultant file(s) into a "project", however you 
define it. I gather this is officially being done by Microsoft.

I still think you need to be more specific if you want to interest 
developers. In particular you are also not specifying what you think 
individual Boost libraries or Boost developers are meant to add to your 
idea(s). It is all still really very vague.

> eric
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Wednesday, July 6, 2016 4:33 AM
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> 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.