Hi, On Wed, 19 Aug 2009, Marius Storm-Olsen wrote: > Johannes Schindelin said the following on 19.08.2009 10:29: > > Hi, > > > > On Wed, 19 Aug 2009, Marius Storm-Olsen wrote: > > > > > The full IDE support is secondary, first because you *can* use the > > > IDE already, and second because it'll be harder to whip something up > > > which guarantees that the vcproj support stays in-sync at all times > > > and won't lag behind. > > > > I think the point of Frank's patches is to make Visual Studio users > > comfortable with Git. You cannot ask those to use a build process or > > an IDE they are not used to. > > > > > Of course, if someone has a huge itch to restructure the current > > > Makefile; factoring out the files into a file which can simply be > > > included in the current Makefile, and easily parsed by a script, or > > > included by CMake, then that can be done in parallel and possible > > > added to git mainline before the MSVC support patches from Frank. > > > > I still think it would be possible to use a combination of a Makefile > > rule and GNU make features to spit out a list of targets and their > > dependet .h and .c files. > > Ok, but you would still have to rely on GNU Make in this setup, and it > would have to generate the common_cmds.h before you can even compile > with the MSVC IDE. But then I could bundle it up and give it to a Visual Studio user and they do not need msysGit. But maybe we should require them to have msysGit? After all, if the package is too small, no Windows developer will take it seriously, right? ;-) Ciao, Dscho -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html