It is quite nice to be able to build everything completely from source in one 
place.  This allows Windows software distributors to have more control over 
PlatformToolsets to reduce the need for distributing multiple merge modules.  
Some companies also have policies that they can only distribute software that 
they built completely from source.
> On Sep 26, 2016, at 11:54 AM, Konstantin Tokarev <annu...@yandex.ru> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> 26.09.2016, 21:46, "Alex Christensen" <achristen...@apple.com 
> <mailto:achristen...@apple.com>>:
>> Right now https://github.com/peavo/WinCairoRequirements 
>> <https://github.com/peavo/WinCairoRequirements> is the best maintained 
>> repository containing all the requirements, even if Per isn’t maintaining it 
>> any more.  If you fork it and add fixes, then yours would become the best 
>> maintained repository of those requirements.  I think it would be great if 
>> you did this.
> 
> It may make sense to use conan.io <http://conan.io/> to fetch dependencies. 
> There are ready to use packages for ICU, libpng, libjpeg-turbo, openssl, 
> libcurl, sqlite. At least this approach allow to decentralize maintenance and 
> compilation of binaries for each individual library.
> 
>>> On Sep 26, 2016, at 11:38 AM, Olmstead, Don <don.olmst...@sony.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I was wondering who was in charge of WinCairo now. We at Sony have been 
>>> using WinCairo to land anything that isn’t specific to our own internal 
>>> port but we don’t have any intention to ship anything using it.
>>> 
>>> We have some outstanding patches for the GitHub requirements 
>>> repository,https://github.com/peavo/WinCairoRequirements, that perarne was 
>>> running but he informed me that he will not be maintaining it going 
>>> forward. I was thinking about making a WinCairo org on GitHub and then 
>>> pushing the contents of that repo to it but I wanted to ask beforehand.
>>> 
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