On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 11:12 AM, Steffen <i...@apachelounge.com> wrote:
> I went earlier back, so I did a .dsp/GUI build with no issues. > > Build with SVN revision 1736328. > > Running looks also fine sofar. > Glad to hear, thanks for testing. I've updated the commit log message to more clearly explain the intent and avoid future confusion; +Going forwards, keep win32 build in svn once a tree is stable. +Visual Studio 2010 users cannot convert our .dsp files, and +ddk toolchain users couldn't either. + +Applies the same logic as r1100294 on the 2.2.x branch. + Until the cmake build schema is entirely mature, these files are needed for command-line builds of the 2.4 tree, and are expected to change very little until the EOL of 2.4 branch. -The actual .dsp files are entirely unusable for any shipping -version of MSVC/Visual Studio, while the .mak exports of these -projects are usable on any flavor of the MS build environment. + +The .dsp source files are not directly usable for any shipping +version of MSVC/Visual Studio (post-Visual Studio 97 release), +while the .mak exports of these projects are usable on any flavor +of the MS nmake build environment. The .dsp source files are +retained for those users wishing to import these projects into +the modern vcproj/sln file format. Hope that is more clear, further edit suggestions are welcome. Cheers, Bill
