Yeah I don't really know, everyone who devs on window seems to think
it matters, but I haven't had any experience with it personally.

Ethan

On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 4:53 PM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote:
> What I'm trying to get at is, what are the "solution and related
> projects" good for?  The non-Windows world does fine without them, so
> if "make" can work on Windows then why is the result "basically
> useless for any practical development purpose"?
>
> On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 04:50:40PM -0500, Ethan Jackson wrote:
>> My understanding is that Guru is working on a solution to this
>> problem.  What were your thoughts?
>>
>> Ethan
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 3:52 PM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote:
>> > On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 08:11:00PM +0000, Alessandro Pilotti wrote:
>> >> We did some testing with autoconf / automake on Windows. Makefiles
>> >> are getting generated correctly although we cannot obviously verify
>> >> the result with a full build since we didn?t port all the patches to
>> >> the master branch yet.
>> >>
>> >> There?s anyway a huge limitation: it does not generate a Visual
>> >> Studio solution and related projects, which means that it?s
>> >> basically useless for any practical development purpose.
>> >
>> > What are those files good for?
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