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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I contact you today about a crazy idea, but I hope it is a right kind of crazy!</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">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.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Porting Apt-Get mean using Debian format (we love it) and providing Windows binary inside the package…</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">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…)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The main idea here is to not reinvent the wheel for packaging management and use something existing, powerful and well known by the community.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Of course all the project will be open source (the new Microsoft
<span style="font-family:Wingdings">J</span>)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I know you’re really busy, and don’t want to boring you, but I wanted to know your feedback about this idea?
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<p class="MsoNormal">Do you want to be included in future discussions and provide feedback as we get more details fleshed out?<span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">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…</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks for your time</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Eric Mittelette</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Senior Program Manager – Visual C++ (VCLib)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:ericmitt@microsoft.com">ericmitt@microsoft.com</a></p>
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