Debian package on Windows

[Eric Mittelette]

Hi

I contact you today about a crazy idea, but I hope it is a right kind of crazy!

I'm PM in the Visual C++ Team (VC Lib to be precise here at Microsoft), we started to think about lib acquisition (still a painful process for C++ on Windows) and we are imaging different options, one is to port apt-get on Windows.
Porting Apt-Get mean using Debian format (we love it) and providing Windows binary inside the package...

For doing that we imagine a light way process to adapt your actual build script to generate Windows binaries using our latest Clang/c2 compiler integration (meaning in theory just changing an env variable to switch from gcc or Clang to our Clang/C2 compiler will be enough...)

The main idea here is to not reinvent the wheel for packaging management and use something existing, powerful and well known by the community.
Of course all the project will be open source (the new Microsoft :))

I know you're really busy, and don't want to boring you, but I wanted to know your feedback about this idea?
Do you want to be included in future discussions and provide feedback as we get more details fleshed out?

Again it is just a draft idea, nothing concrete, but wanted to validate with you and the Debian maintainers community if that make sense for you...

Thanks for your time

Eric Mittelette
Senior Program Manager - Visual C++ (VCLib)
ericmitt at microsoft.com<mailto:ericmitt at microsoft.com>


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