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I think you're being naive. Microsoft has spent 1000s of engineering years on their build system. You aren't going to just replicate that in a week.
by jedberg 4y ago
I think you're being naive. Microsoft has spent 1000s of engineering years on their build system. You aren't going to just replicate that in a week.
- great_psy 4y agoYou’re also not trying to get a full CICD pipeline complete with unit/integration tests, crypto signatures, ability to flip features on and off with a click , monitoring of the cicd pipeline, scaled so 1000s of engineers can work at once etc
- VHRanger 4y agoAs a user said below, you wouldn't need cross platform support, incremental builds, tests to run, etc. Just getting the code to compile, link, baking in assets, etc. For a single architecture is a much more reasonable goal. I'd imagine it'd be on the scale of 1-3months for an engineer to get working full time, but large error bars around this figure
- rvnx 4y agoPlus it already has been done before with Windows XP, without even any documentation and there is a guide on the internet on how to build Windows Server 2003. This was done (if I remember right) when governments and big customers had access to the Windows source-code.
- int_19h 4y agoMicrosoft uses Azure DevOps for products as large as Visual Studio.