You realize that no one else is going to update them, right?
On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 12:03:02AM +0000, Alessandro Pilotti wrote: > What if we simply add a folder with the Visual Studio build files to begin > with? > > > On 26/nov/2013, at 01:29, "Ben Pfaff" <b...@nicira.com> wrote: > > > > We're not switching to CMake. If you have something to generate the > > XML files you need, we'll check that in. > > > >> On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 11:23:37PM +0000, Alessandro Pilotti wrote: > >> Visual Studio is the "de facto" IDE for Windows development. It provides > >> all the features you'd expect from a modern environment (integrated > >> debugger, refactoring tools, Git integration, syntax highlighting and a > >> gazillion additional features) and in general it allows to be a few orders > >> of magnitude more productive than a text editor and some command line > >> tools. > >> > >> For other scenarios, e.g. Python or other interpreted dynamic languages, > >> I'm personally a great fan of simpler editors like Sublime, but I'd never > >> even think of working in C/C++/C#/Java/etc without an IDE and especially > >> an integrated debugger. > >> > >> I can assure you that no Windows developer I ever met would ever accept to > >> jump back in time 20 years and use vi as her/his main productivity tool. > >> :-) If this port is meant to attract more Windows community contributors > >> then Visual Studio support is substantially mandatory. > >> > >> Said that, if in your intentions the project is not meant to be developed > >> on Windows but only compiled to produce the binaries, well, makefiles are > >> enough. > >> > >> I suggest to take a tour of other well known cross platform projects and > >> see how those manage the Windows builds. You'll see that some of them > >> consider Windows as a platform for builds only (basically no development), > >> some use CMake to support all the required platforms (Qt5, MySQL, FreeRDP > >> come to mind) and some use separate build systems (CPython, Apache, just > >> to name a couple). > >> > >> If you're interested we can record a quick webcast to show how to use > >> Visual Studio for Open vSwitch development activities. This might help in > >> clarifying some of the statements above. > >> > >> As a final note, Visual Studio files are just XML files, so generating > >> them dynamically is not that complicated if we really have to. > >> > >> Alessandro > >> > >>> On 26/nov/2013, at 00:18, "Gurucharan Shetty" <shet...@nicira.com> wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> Sent from my iPhone > >>> > >>>> On Nov 25, 2013, at 5:05 PM, Jesse Gross <je...@nicira.com> wrote: > >>>> > >>>> They're the equivalent of makefiles for Visual Studio. Without them > >>>> you can't use the Windows-native development tools so while it's not > >>>> impossible to work it certainly makes life more difficult. > >>> > >>> One can still edit the files using a vi editor (or any other simple > >>> editor)on windows and do a make. Probably the disadvantage is that you > >>> can't use visual studio ide to write code(?). > >>> > >>> > >>>> > >>>>> On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 1:53 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? > >>>>>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>>>>> dev mailing list > >>>>>>> dev@openvswitch.org > >>>>>>> http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev > >>>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>>> dev mailing list > >>>>> dev@openvswitch.org > >>>>> http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> dev mailing list > >>> dev@openvswitch.org > >>> http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev > >> _______________________________________________ > >> dev mailing list > >> dev@openvswitch.org > >> http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
