On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 13:42 +0100, Erik Hofman wrote: > Geoff McLane wrote: > > About 5 weeks ago you removed the FlightGear.dsp and FlightGear.dsw > Hmm, I get mixed request from different Windows developers. I was asked > to remove them! > > Honestly I thought the project files are stored in their own directory > (e.g. projetcs/MSVC9.0) these days.
Hi Eric, >> I was asked to remove them! Who asked, and why? I did not read this on the list, or maybe missed it, otherwise I would have offered an 'opinion' then ;=)) >> the project files are stored in their own directory Yes, we do have projects/VC90 and VC7.1, and we did have VC80 as well, for both SG and FG! But these are only as up-to-date as the developer who put them there, and maintains them. Thus they are ONLY maintained if and when that developer does it, Fred. But his last update was now some time ago, although I note Tim has recently added some patches from Vivian... docs-mini/README.MSVC - last update by you 2005 This only really points to Fred's ftp directory at - ftp://ftp.ihg.uni-duisburg.de/FlightGear/Win32/MSVC/ where the last build file zip is dated June 2005! docs-mini/README.MSVC8 - last update 2006 This refers to MSVC8, which has been removed! and points to a wiki - http://wiki.flightgear.org/flightgear_wiki/index.php?title=Building_Flightgear which, under the 'Building FlightGear - Windows', does provide quite a detailed build description, and as an external link at the bottom, points to my 'build' center! I assume this dependence on 'other' developers is why Curt? or who ever, wrote the am2dsp.pl script. Fred even made a small update to it a few years back to change to /MD... Now am2dsp.pl could be modified to write build files into say 'projects/MSVC' if desired, to get these files out of the root area... And am2dsp.pl provides a way you, and/or other cvs maintainers can ensure there are _ALWAYS_ up-do-date MSVC build files, regardless of the disposition of other developers. And I see NO REASON to provide multiple build version files. One MSVC6 set would be enough, since they can be used by ALL later versions. As stated, it is hard to have a really 'generic' way in MSVC, thus each native WIN developer has his/her own way of doing things. Very few of the 3rd party dependent libraries are available for something like the simple 'apt-get', so they have to get into building all of these themselves. Hence my detailed build center, that always gets into _ALL_ the other dependent sources, and how to build them... I would do the mods to am2dsp.pl to move the files to say :- projects/MSVC if that is desired/required, and could add some lines to README.MSVC and MSVC8 to talk about these 'generic', 'simple' am2dsp.pl generated build files if they are put back in either place... And, yes, let us hear from other native windows developers... What are other suggestions here? Regards, Geoff. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Return on Information: Google Enterprise Search pays you back Get the facts. http://p.sf.net/sfu/google-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
