On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 10:47 AM, Christian Ehrlicher
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  You've the dependency on VisualStudio (and maybe other external libs) but 
> are afraid of the cmake dependency?

Yes, as cmake appears to be optional while the others are required.
That's a good point though.

>  Throw away the idea of shipping indivudal .vcproj files. Today I had to 
> install three external libs and every one had a whole bunch of Makefiles 
> (cygwin, gnu, osx, sun, ...) and .vcproj - Files (vs6, vs7, vs8 - I wonder if 
> they don't support vs9 ;) ). This looks very professional and I won't think 
> about the administration effort to keep all of them up-to-date.
>  Oh, and because they don't support out-of-source builds they also shipped a 
> clean.bat file to clean up all the files created by vs...
>
>  A single CMakeLists.txt would make all the above superflous.
>
>
>  Nobody forces you to use CMake - just write and maintain your .vcproj by 
> your own ;)

Yeah, right. :p
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