On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 1:50 PM, Thorsten Schöning <[email protected]> wrote: > Guten Tag Robert Middleton, > am Freitag, 21. April 2017 um 18:27 schrieben Sie: > >> That's correct, there's no need for ant at this point > > So we are dropping Ant and deleting it altogether? I can't remember a > clear outcome of our former discussions. :-) This way we'll loose > entire support for building in Visual Studio and such on Windows, > generation of project files etc. This worked in the past at least. >
My preference would be to use CMake, since it can generate the project files on Windows for Visual Studio. At least one problem with using Ant is that the plugin that was being used to generate the Visual Studio files(cpptasks) is currently unmaintained; CMake is regularly maintained. Since CMake is designed to be cross-platform anyway, it seems like the logical choice to use. -Robert Middleton
