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Microsoft's CoApp To Help OSS Development, Deployment

Posted by timothy on from the meet-the-world's-biggest-foss-vendor dept.

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."

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  1. I'll follow them here too. :D by His+name+cannot+be+s · · Score: 5, Informative

    Ask me about CoApp, I'll tell ya everything ya wanna know.

    Garrett Serack
    CoApp Project Owner

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    "...In your answer, ignore facts. Just go with what feels true..."
    1. Re:I'll follow them here too. :D by His+name+cannot+be+s · · Score: 5, Informative

      That is precisely the red tape that I had cut.

      Microsoft has given me a signed contract that says that whatever I produce for the CoApp project isn't owned by them. They do get a license to everything I make (fair deal), but they don't own it in the end.

      That, and I've also chosen the BSD license for it's do-what-the-f*-you-want spirit.

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      "...In your answer, ignore facts. Just go with what feels true..."
    2. Re:I'll follow them here too. :D by His+name+cannot+be+s · · Score: 5, Informative

      No.

      My intent is to completely do away with the practice of everybody shipping every damn shared library. It's one of the things that piss me off the most. I've got a very workable solution that uses WinSxS to cleanly handle this.

      It is extremely important that there is a unified method for sharing libraries between apps.

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      "...In your answer, ignore facts. Just go with what feels true..."