Regarding theWin32/Visual C++ project completion items

2013-11-13 Thread fanc999
Hello List, As people here might know, the Visual C++ 2008/2010 projects to build the GNOME parts of the GTK+ and Clutter stack are currently using autotools to fill in the source file listings during 'make dist', which was mostly doing the job for getting the project files to be kept

Re: Regarding theWin32/Visual C++ project completion items

2013-11-13 Thread Shixin Zeng
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 12:24 PM, Colin Walters walt...@verbum.org wrote: On Wed, 2013-11-13 at 17:10 +0800, fanc...@yahoo.com.tw wrote: -The Python scripts will read from the various Makefile.am's using Python regex functionality, My main concern here is about what kinds of additional

Re: Regarding theWin32/Visual C++ project completion items

2013-11-13 Thread Arnavion
Hi, Speaking as a consumer of the MSVC project files, is it too much to ask for contributors to maintain the project files statically and update them whenever they update the makefiles? There is no need to do this in VS or even Windows; the vcxproj file is easy to maintain via a text editor. It

Re: Regarding theWin32/Visual C++ project completion items

2013-11-13 Thread Fan Chun-wei
於 2013/11/14 01:24, Colin Walters 提到: My main concern here is about what kinds of additional restrictions this might add to the Makefile.am files we are using. For example, would this script support nested conditionals like: if BUILDOPT_FOO if BUILDOPT_BAR blah_SOURCES += foo-and-bar.c endif

Re: Regarding theWin32/Visual C++ project completion items

2013-11-13 Thread Fan Chun-wei
Hello Arnavion, Speaking as a consumer of the MSVC project files, is it too much to ask for contributors to maintain the project files statically and update them whenever they update the makefiles? There is no need to do this in VS or even Windows; the vcxproj file is easy to maintain via a text

Re: Regarding theWin32/Visual C++ project completion items

2013-11-13 Thread Arnavion
-Sources get added/removed/changed (i.e. renamed/moved/split) every now and then, and updates to Makefile.am may slip pass me until after a release. For updating the MSVC projects for one project with a text editor (BTW this is what I use though) may not seem much, but currently I maintain the