Microsoft's CoApp To Help OSS Development, Deployment

badpazzword writes "Microsoft employee Garrett Serack announces he has received the green light to work full time on CoApp, an .msi-based package management system aiming to bring a wholly native toolchain for OSS development and deployment. This will hopefully bring more open source software on Windows, which will bring OSS to more users, testers and developers. Serack is following the comments at Ars Technica, so he might also follow them here. The launchpad project is already up."

Comments

Re:I'll follow them here too. :D

[Meshach]

In the same vein feel free to ask me about Linux.

Linus Torvalds
Linux Kernel Founder

Re:I'll follow them here too. :D

[Cryacin]

I'm Santa.

Ask me about anything to do with snow, the north pole, midgets, flying reindeer and flying midgets.

Re:I'll follow them here too. :D

[sortius_nod]

It all feels too much like a dirty beat up van in a shopping mall parking lot with "free candy" painted on the side...

Re:I'll follow them here too. :D

[martin-boundary]

I'm Batman.

Uh. That's it.

Re:I'll follow them here too. :D

[toastar]

At least you can diff a config file. Try that with a gui.

I do that that all the time, screenshot + OCR only takes me 30 secs to pop the data into excel.

office/windows is a pretty stable work platform, Linux I'm always spending 15 minutes getting a screenshot app working.

Re:I'll follow them here too. :D

[Compholio]

Ask me about Grim Fandango.

Re:I'll follow them here too. :D

[Cryacin]

FROM: Santa's Workshop helpdesk
TO: Virignia

We have finished the research on flying midgets. We are moving on to flying goats next, which should let us finally allow pigs to fly.

We thank you for your patience whilst we satisfy your mother's prerequisite requirements on when you can have a pony.

Re:I'll follow them here too. :D

[h4rr4r]

By killer you mean those that admin it wish to kill themselves right?

The thing even lacks the ability to use smtp auth.

Re:I'll follow them here too. :D

[TubeSteak]

I'm Alfred the Butler.
Would you like a cup of tea Sirs?

Re:wholly native toolchain

[h4rr4r]

This is the sort of thing that makes the FSM smile upon you and shall earn you an afterlife spent near the beer volcano and stripper factory.

Let me right the first line of code for you.

[codepunk]

I am feeling generous this evening and decided I would donate the first line of code to this
fine project. I relinquish all copyrights on the following line of code, feel free to do with
it as you wish.

#include "ie6.h"