All,<div><br></div><div>I was looking at the documentation for getting ROS running on Windows, and it was mentioned somewhere that one of the issues is that there&#39;s no open-source dependency management on Windows. After a brief search, I came across a new (very new) MS-supported initiative called &quot;CoApp&quot; (Common Application Publishing Platform). It&#39;s basically a package manager for open-source software on Windows. It seems like they&#39;re still in the very early stages of designing the system, but it&#39;s clear that they&#39;ve both put a lot of thought into it already and have the experience and support to actually make it a reality. </div>

<div><br></div><div>Has anyone looked into this already? It seems like it could really be a boon for the development of an easy and viable ROS environment on Windows (since we&#39;ve all been spoiled by the debian package manager), and if anyone is interested, it might be worth getting involved in their design discussions.</div>

<div><br></div><div>For more info, see: <a href="http://coapp.org/">http://coapp.org/</a> and <a href="http://coapp.org/Getting_Started/CoApp_Project_Governance">http://coapp.org/Getting_Started/CoApp_Project_Governance</a></div>

<div><br></div><div>best,</div><div>-j<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 4:49 AM, Daniel Stonier <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:d.stonier@gmail.com">d.stonier@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div><br></div>Hi ros users,<div><br>Ok, something more of an official announcement for the <a href="http://code.google.com/p/win-ros-pkg/" target="_blank">win-ros-pkg</a> repository.<br>

<br>We have a mingw compiled ros working (minimally for windows) and also started a stack to handle development of the tools and utilities. Some links if you are interested in diving in::<br>
<br><div>Some tutorials<br><ul><li><a href="http://www.ros.org/wiki/diamondback/Installation/Windows" target="_blank">http://www.ros.org/wiki/diamondback/Installation/Windows</a></li><li><a href="http://www.ros.org/wiki/win_ros" target="_blank">http://www.ros.org/wiki/win_ros</a></li>


<li><a href="http://www.ros.org/wiki/mingw_cross/Tutorials/Mingw%20Build%20Environment" target="_blank">http://www.ros.org/wiki/mingw_cross/Tutorials/Mingw%20Build%20Environment</a></li><li><a href="http://www.ros.org/wiki/win_ros/Tutorials/Mingw%20Runtime%20Environment" target="_blank">http://www.ros.org/wiki/win_ros/Tutorials/Mingw%20Runtime%20Environment</a></li>


<li><a href="http://www.ros.org/wiki/win_ros/standalone_clients" target="_blank">http://www.ros.org/wiki/win_ros/standalone_clients</a></li></ul><div>To contact us, bug reporting, feature requests:</div><div><ul><li><a href="http://www.ros.org/wiki/win-ros-pkg/Contact" target="_blank">http://www.ros.org/wiki/win-ros-pkg/Contact</a></li>


</ul></div>Note that this is only early days yet - only the core packages have been patched and we&#39;re also working on native msvc support, but any and all are welcome to test and even better, contribute.<br><br></div>


<div>Regards,</div><div>Daniel Stonier.</div></div>
<br>_______________________________________________<br>
ros-users mailing list<br>
<a href="mailto:ros-users@code.ros.org">ros-users@code.ros.org</a><br>
<a href="https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users" target="_blank">https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users</a><br>
<br></blockquote></div><br></div>