On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 10:07:57AM +0000, Neil Mitchell wrote:
Hi
The nix package manager (although beeing primarly a linux tool) can run on cygwin as well (at least it did some time ago).. I'd suggest trying that to package windows libraries. It dose generate tag files for you automatically as well. At least it can build dependencies such as C libraries and so on for you automatically as well. Unfortunately I don't have time to work on the windows port. The cool thing about nix is: You can always switch back to the previous generation if something breaks. It organizes the packages like a memory management system. You only reference the target and the deps in between will be build / removed automatically for you if they are no longer used when running the nix garbage collector. There is another drawback: It definitely only works on a ntfs partition. On the other hand it does also support binary distributions and install software by clicking on links. In the end this is perfect for developping (IMHO) even if you have to learn a lot at the beginning. My major problem hindering my starting to work on this is that cygwin doesn't run on Vista running in kvm/ qemu. sh.exe exits and that's it. So if you have a solution for that I'd consider resuming work on it Sincerly Marc Weber