Steffan, I was plesantly surprised when I tested this on an early VS2015 preview and the conversion was still supported.
I observed the note below in 2010 when that comment was first made (I cribbed that comment from 2.2.x checkin). So I now wonder if that note was based on an Express edition perhaps? Or on an early release - and MS later added or fixed the conversion? I can't be more specific at this point, but maybe someone else remembers such an issue. On Mar 24, 2016 05:39, "Steffen" <i...@apachelounge.com> wrote: > Good now. > > Little note: Visual Studio 2010 users cannot convert our .dsp files. > That's not true, I convert them. > > Steffen > > > > From: William A Rowe Jr Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2016 9:23 PM > To: httpd Subject: ********* Re: 2.4.20 Change dsp: Win32-specific build > files. > > 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 >
