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[Garrett Serack <garretts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well, the tools that I built over the last year require a lot of manual hand-holding, so I'm really planning on rewriting them from scratch again to make them quite a bit smarter.

The last generation of tools is on my project page at the http://gstoolkit.codeplex.com ... but unless you know how to use them, they are probably not very useful in their current state.

I'll be filling in more planning details over the next week or so.


Garrett Serack | Open Source Software Developer | Microsoft Corporation 
I don't make the software you use; I make the software you use better on Windows.


-----Original Message-----
From: Philip Allison [mailto:mangobrain@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Friday, April 09, 2010 10:03 AM
To: Garrett Serack
Cc: coapp-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Coapp-developers] Conversion to/from UNIX-style build systems?

On 9 April 2010 17:36, Garrett Serack <garretts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> So part of CoApp is the evolution of some seriously cool magic that I've been working on for the last couple of years.
>
> Tools that can take absolutely any existing build process and turn it 
> into Visual Studio project files. I've done this on about 100 projects 
> already, and it's pretty damn cool
>

^^ This. :D  This is the sort of thing I'm interested in, because getting this right is - IMHO - of critical importance if packaging for CoApp, and keeping those packages up to date, is going to be a realistic prospect.  (Not to say that there aren't a lot of other, equally important problems to solve, but this is one of the first ones that needs solving to really prove feasibility.)

When do we get to take a look? ;)

Regards,
Phil