Find-Build-Share-Use

== Or ==What the hell can I tell you

about NuGet For C++ in the next 20 minutes that

won`t get me killed.Garrett Serack@FearTheCowboy

Microsoft Open Source Technology Center

First things first

What the hell is package management

about?

Short, dull answer

A consistent and convenient method of bundling

together libraries, headers, binaries and resources…

Short, dull answer

… that users can easily Find, Share, Build and

Use

Needless expansion of statement

Discovery, Publication, Authoring

and Consumption

Tell me something I don’t know

Managing libraries (on Windows) is really

hard.

How bad can it be?

Even a ‘single’ library can have way too

damn many Variations.

How many?Platforms : x86, x64, ARM

Configuration: Release/DebugLinkage: Static, Dynamic, LTCG, SxSTarget: Windows, StoreApps, Phone,

…Compiler:

VC6,VC7,VC8,VC9,VC10,VC11,GCC …

Charset: Unicode, MBCS, UTF8, UTF16 …

Calling Convention: Cdecl, Stdcall …

Too many!

Crap, I ran out of fingers.

Needless to say, it’s just too many.

Now What?

Ok.. So, any solution for this Has to support any number

ofArbitrary combinations

without limit.

Secret to success

Find someone else to care about

what you care about, and make it their problem

Clever reiterationSet the building on fire,

Take someone else’s stuff into the

building with you, And scream for help

like a baby.

Dragging NuGet into the fire

NuGet works great* for

Managed libraries. Right?

8-Ball Answer

All signs point to ‘yes’

8-Ball Answer

Stupid 8-ball.

From the Duck Tape & Bailing Twine Department

So we added a couple

tiny features to NuGet

From the Duck Tape & Bailing Twine Department

And I spent four months cranking out an

insanely complex authoring tool.

That and $4 will get you a coffee at Starbucks

And I come up with the CoApp PowerShell

Tools

How’s that work?

Basically a few toolsthat can assist building

All those damn variations…

How’s that work?

…And then collect all the bits up, and package

and publish them.

Kindergarten

This is where we play Show and tell.

So, now what?

I’m lonely--Please come play

with me!

Awwwwww

That’s the price I pay for being an Open

Source guy At Microsoft.

Not so subtle pleaWe could sure use helpBuilding, publishing

and maintaining libraries

(Ooh… and documentation!)

Plug the site, man!

http://coapp.org

Whoa, questions...

Does this work on Linux or Mac or <whatever>?

Look, the goodyear blinp!

NuGet runs on Mono, so consumption side

would be really, really close.

D’oh!

Authoring has a few dependencies on

Windows libraries still (and…uh, powershell)

Really?

However, it’s not insurmountable to remove

those (and switch to cmdline tools instead of

cmdlets)

Back in that burning building

But, I’d need some help to

make sure I didn’t #*$! it up.

Get the tools

http://CoApp.org/releases

THE@fear

Get Involved!

http://CoApp.org

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