Hi all, in the thread "Freezing trunk?" we encountered a new topic and I would like to summarize the discussion in this new thread. This has been said so far:
>>> (a) makes visual studio 6 projects, which cannot be used by Visual >>> studio versions above 2008; so you have to convert them with a VS2008 >>> before being able to build with 2010, 2012 or later. >> >> Isn't that an argument to remove the creation of projects by cpptasks? >> I have the feeling this would make the build script more maintainable >> and we would be less dependent on cpptasks, which isn't supported >> anymore anyways. > > +1 Additionally I would like to mention that we could create something like a projects folder in the repo where the currently available project files for different IDEs could be stored, pretty much those files which are created for a release now or contributed by others. This way we wouldn't lose those files and can provide a benefit for those users and platforms, where our build tools are currently not working. Users like me. ;-) I found it to be very helpful to have some project files which I could use as examples for creating our owns. We wouldn't even need to support those files, either they are used and people provide patches or users like me would maintain what they use or the files are only examples which needs to get updated anytime by anyone. We can make this clear in the docs. The benefit would be that we can reduce the dependance of cpptasks a bit, make the build maybe more maintainable and e.g. I would stop trying to get build.xml work around limitations of cpptasks for my IDE and try to provide and use my project files. Less workarounds are always better. Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Thorsten Schöning -- Thorsten Schöning E-Mail:thorsten.schoen...@am-soft.de AM-SoFT IT-Systeme http://www.AM-SoFT.de/ Telefon...........05151- 9468- 55 Fax...............05151- 9468- 88 Mobil..............0178-8 9468- 04 AM-SoFT GmbH IT-Systeme, Brandenburger Str. 7c, 31789 Hameln AG Hannover HRB 207 694 - Geschäftsführer: Andreas Muchow
