Office Professional 2007 CoApp An open-source pac

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Microsoft is continuing its efforts to appeal to much more open-source developers to create their wares readily available on Windows. The newest part of that technique is CoApp, a brand new open-source package-management platform that 1 with the firm;s developers is beginning to assemble.The goal of CoApp is to assemble in a single location a “community-driven package-management system” and associated tools to encourage the development and maintenance of open-source applications on Windows,Office Professional 2007, according to a March 31 blog post by Garrett Serack, Microsoft;s Open Supply Community Software Developer.Open-source developers need a better way to get current binaries, compilers and libraries they need to get their software working on Windows, Serack said. Consumers of open-source software on Windows need these things, too.“Clearly there is a strong need for a package management system,Office 2007 Standard Serial cl��, along the same lines as apt, rpm, synaptic (and others) but built for the Windows platform, and compatible with Windows features,” Serack said. “I’m not interested in simply making a knock-off of the Unix-style way of doing things. Windows doesn’t store binaries in c:\usr\bin (/usr/bin) and libraries in c:\usr\lib (/usr/lib), so we’re not going to do things like that.”Serack explains more with the background of why he is creating CoApp in his post:“The biggest challenge to using/building/maintaining many Open Supply applications on Windows, is that Windows does quite a bit of things differently than Linux and Unix . Different filesystems, command lines, APIs, user experiences … well, pretty substantially everything. Regardless of personal opinions about it being the ‘right-way’ or ‘wrong-way’,Office 2007 Pro Plus, it suffices to say that it is just simply different.“In order to build an Open Source application like PHP for Windows from scratch,Office 2007 Pro Plus, I need to have a collection of libraries created from a fair number of different projects.”CoApp will handle multiple versions of binaries using WinSxS (side-by-side), including multiple copies with the same version with the same library, compiled with different compilers. It also will support both 32- and 64-bit systems; provide tools and methods for handling dependencies; allow for upgrades and patching of libraries and apps,Office 2007 Pro Plus cl��, and extra.Serack has started putting together the specifications and tools for CoApp on Launchpad and the wiki at He said he welcomes contributions and feedback.Update (April 7): Serack is remaining a full-time Microsoft employee but he and his project are moving to the CodePlex Foundation, which is the Microsoft-founded and funded open-source foundation.