On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Ben Craig
NuGet is a package manager that has traditionally been focused on .NET, but it has recently added support for C++ libraries. Here is a presentation by the lead developer adding C++ support to NuGet:
http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/GoingNative/2013/Find-Build-Share-Use-Using-...
Interesting. It looks like NuGet is Microsoft's attempt at providing the Debian "apt-get" Advance Packaging Tool for Windows. If NuGet comes even close the usefulness of apt-get, it will be a big step forward for Windows developers who want to use open source software, IMO.
I would like to see boost packages added to NuGet, and to have these packages be "official" packages. I am a contributor on another project (Thrift) and I would like to be able to produce NuGet packages for Thrift, and I would like that package to have a "magically" working Boost dependency.
Sergey Shandar has made some unofficial packages. Blog describing his effort: http://sergey-shandar.blogspot.com/2013/08/boost-on-nugetorg.html Nuget packages he has submitted: https://www.nuget.org/profiles/sergey.shandar/
If someone (perhaps me) authored the boost NuGet package build process, would the person in charge of releasing Boost be willing to publish the NuGet packages that get created?
There are going to be plenty of follow up questions if Boost releases are willing to publish NuGet packages, but I figured I would get the big question out of the way first.
I'm very interested. --Beman