What's the build-time impact of this?
On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 4:00 PM, Gregory Szorc <g...@mozilla.com> wrote: > Coming soon to your local builds, Visual Studio project files will be > generated automatically when building on Windows because we want to > encourage more people to use them because fully-featured IDEs can be > productivity wins. > > The Visual Studio projects now automatically target the Visual Studio > version being used (1 week ago they would always generate VS2013 project > files). Another new change is that unless the build configuration changes, > the Visual Studio files won't be updated by the build system unless they > need changed. That means if you do a pull+build when Visual Studio is open, > you shouldn't get tons of warnings that you need to reload files to pick up > changes. > > The Visual Studio integration isn't perfect. We'd like to encourage more > development on Windows because that's where most Firefox users are. So if > you'd like improvements to the Visual Studio project files, please file > Core :: Build Config bugs. > > This change was tracked in bug 1275297. Bug 1275419 tracks a follow-up to > allow disabling their generation. > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
