provide support for windows/visual studio based build/testing processes

[riedel]

likely to use nuget (and potentially chocolatey).

An example in need is here: https://github.com/teco-kit/PointAndControl/ .

[avtar]

Hi @riedel, I'll be adding these changes and a tutorial over the next week or two as we work on a QI screencast for the P4A YouTube account. Support for Windows will be based on the work that the GPII project currently uses. If you would like to test something right now your project's repository will need a few artifacts:

• A Vagrantfile - for the tutorial, and going forward, this step will be implemented in a way that addresses GPII-1815 (most likely relying on an npm package for JavaScript projects and git submodules for non-JavaScript projects)
• A provisioning directory in the root directory where the Vagrantfile is located that contains chocolatey-packages.bat and build.bat batch files. Examples of these files can be found here:
  • https://github.com/GPII/windows/blob/master/provisioning/chocolatey-packages.bat
  • https://github.com/GPII/windows/blob/master/provisioning/build.bat

With those items in place you can use the vagrant up command to download a Windows 10 VM image (this will take some time depending on your internet connection). Once the image has been downloaded a new VM will be launched and provisioned using the contents of the batch files listed above. To use the VM interactively it would be helpful to be aware of https://issues.gpii.net/browse/GPII-1828

Please let me know if you have any questions and thanks for the feedback!

Avtar