Re: [PATCH 10/11] Add MSVC Project file

[Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>]

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Hi,

On Mon, 17 Aug 2009, Erik Faye-Lund wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 7:34 PM, Paolo Bonzini<bonzini@gnu.org> wrote:
> > Also, a cleaner XML without verbosities like
> >
> > +                       <Tool
> > +                               Name="VCMIDLTool"
> > +                       />
> >
> > would make the patch easier to review.
> 
> ...but will it make it more annoying to maintain in the long run? It 
> might be painful to work with a mixture of hand-written and 
> msdev-written XML. Of course, if we get some scripts in place to 
> generate the vcproj-files this might not be a problem...

I think the killer argument against such a script (I actually though of 
that myself, but decided against it for that very reason) is that the 
result is to be used by Microsoft Visual Studio users, who do not 
typically have a scripting language, and who would not want to use it 
anyway.

Of course, we could have a script that verifies that the .vcproj files 
contain reference the appropriate files (which it would know about by 
being called from the Makefile and being passed the file names), maybe 
even be able to edit the .vcproj file if it is missing some.  Should not 
be too hard in Perl.

Ciao,
Dscho