From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id OAA08105; Mon, 6 Sep 2004 14:24:24 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA10933 for ; Mon, 6 Sep 2004 14:24:23 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from regyva.canterbury.ac.nz (regyva.canterbury.ac.nz [132.181.2.35]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id i86COLmx014133 for ; Mon, 6 Sep 2004 14:24:22 +0200 Received: from CONVERSION-A1.it.canterbury.ac.nz by it.canterbury.ac.nz (PMDF V6.2-X27 #30791) id <01LEKED2GK34DWONQD@it.canterbury.ac.nz> for caml-list@inria.fr; Tue, 07 Sep 2004 00:24:16 +1200 (NEW ZEALAND STANDARD TIME) Received: from webmail (cantwm.giga.canterbury.ac.nz [132.181.2.26]) by it.canterbury.ac.nz (PMDF V6.2-X27 #30791) with ESMTP id <01LEKED29D36DWPL21@it.canterbury.ac.nz>; Tue, 07 Sep 2004 00:24:16 +1200 (NEW ZEALAND STANDARD TIME) Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2004 00:24:15 +1200 From: Jason Smith Subject: RE: [Caml-list] Announcing the OMake build system version 0.9.1 To: "Brandon J. Van Every" , "Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk" Cc: caml Message-id: <413AB8C5@webmail> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: WebMail (Hydra) SMTP v3.61 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-WebMail-UserID: jns28 X-EXP32-SerialNo: 00002797 X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 413C56F5.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; jns:99 canterbury:99 caml-list:01 dependencies:01 debug:01 she:98 emacs:01 trivial:01 makefile:02 explicit:03 rename:03 bunch:03 snip:04 switched:04 guess:06 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk >There are two problems with this approach. (Disclaimer: I've never >seen VS.) > >1. It relies on the fact that the project is manipulated only within > VS. You can't just add or rename a file physically, you must > register it in the project. I guess file metadata are kept with > explicit lists of files, not with patterns like "all files with > this extension in all subdirectories of this dir". In the new version of VC 2003, project files are just XML files with a bunch of appropriate tags, i.e. release, debug directories, project tpye etc.. > A makefile allows to decouple tools for editing and distribution > from tools for building. A person working on a project can use any > editor she wants, even to add and remove files. I already switched > editors once during this project (from jed to emacs). It should be fairly trivial to write an editor that can read VC .proj files and add/remove from them like they were working with their own project files. [snip rest of point 1] >2. Integrated environments like VS work better for typical projects. > They may be hard to adapt to unusual requirements. Consider the > basic issue of language choice. What one needs to do to use VS with > a language unknown to VS? How to tell VS about dependencies which > need to be generated by a custom tool? not sure, haven't tried this. actually not sure about the rest of ur questions, I just wanted to point out that proj files for VC are pretty easy to customize. Jason. ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners