On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Bradley Nelson <bradnel...@google.com>wrote:

> I would argue this does fall in the domain of something gyp should be able
> to do. Scons for instance detects when command lines have changed. If I
> recall correctly, xcode does as well. This wouldn't involve gyp touching the
> output directory at all, it would be more like how you can list a makefile
> as an input to some of its own rules.
>
Ok, so the build within Visual Studio is what's actually gonna nuke
everything, not the generator run?  Yes, that's different and make more
sense.  It would be nice if you could do this entirely within the GYP files
and not extra magic from the generator, but that might not be easily doable.

> -BradN
>
> On Aug 12, 2009 2:22 PM, "Thomas Van Lenten" <thoma...@chromium.org>
> wrote:
>
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Bradley Nelson <bradnel...@google.com>
> wrote: > > That one is know ...
> This doesn't sound like something for GYP to fix, the "fix" is detecting
> what visual studio doesn't and clobbering the build.  I don't think we want
> any generators nuking output directories, etc?  (the Mac generator doesn't
> even know about output dirs, the output dirs is completely controlled by the
> GYP files themselves.)
>
> TVL
>
> > > -BradN > > > On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Jeremy Orlow <
> jor...@google.com> wrote: >> >> Br...
>
>

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