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[Garrett Serack <garretts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Solving this correctly isn't going to happen overnight, and I'm less worried about quickly getting a way to get compiling on Windows to work, than I am about solving the whole problem (source -> build -> package -> publish)

Generating VC project files that do not depend on Shared Library Packages is a short-term hack. Fixing the one in the middle isn't accelerating the whole thing anyway.

PJ>> I would suggest to focus first on getting a finished package from binaries 
PJ>> (using some definition data). Doing so will allow a lot of project to test 
PJ>> the packages solution easily without having to change their build 
PJ>> infrastructure or methods.

I can already build packages by hand. It's a lot of damn work, and it's not sustainable, and is only useful as a temporary work around. Building the tools to handle all of this will happen, and in a reasonable time-frame. 



Garrett Serack | Open Source Software Developer | Microsoft Corporation 
I don't make the software you use; I make the software you use better on Windows.


-----Original Message-----
From: Olaf van der Spek [mailto:olafvdspek@xxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 8:20 AM
To: Pierre Joye
Cc: Garrett Serack; coapp-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Coapp-developers] VC project generator / how-to

On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 5:16 PM, Pierre Joye <pierre.php@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> hi,
>
> On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 5:04 PM, Garrett Serack <garretts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I wouldn’t say "way more"...
>>
>> But knowing what the target is, we can build the tools to get there.
>>
>> Hence:
>>   - Figure out what the packages will look like
>>   - build the tools to get from [current source] to [finished 
>> packages]
>
> I would suggest to focus first on getting a finished package from 
> binaries (using some definition data). Doing so will allow a lot of 
> project to test the packages solution easily without having to change 
> their build infrastructure or methods.

Other projects don't have any Windows build infrastructure. Having a way for them to generate the VC project files such that others can easily build the packages would be more handy for them.

Olaf