[tomboy-list] Visual Studio 2010

Greg Poirier grep at binary-snobbery.com
Thu Sep 8 14:21:12 PDT 2011


+1 for everything he said, basically.

On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Benjamin Podszun <
benjamin.podszun at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey.
>
> I would have no problems with a conversion to 2010 - that's what I use for
> work. Regarding multiple versions: I'd rather not go down that route. For
> both 2010 and 2008 free versions are available (so we're not shutting anyone
> out) and as soon as you're modifying the solution you end up having to do it
> in more than one place (which we already have to do for various platforms,
> no need to do that for Windows builds times N).
>
> So - my take:
>
> 2010 is fine for me, even appreciated.
>
> Regards,
> Ben
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 6:23 PM, Sandy Armstrong <
> sanfordarmstrong at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> This is your guys' call of course, but I can tell you that it has
>> always been a pain in the ass for me to maintain the autotools build,
>> the MonoDevelop solution, the Windows solution and project files, and
>> the Mac solution and project files.  Adding more solutions/projects is
>> pretty much the opposite of what I would want to be doing as a
>> maintainer...it just adds a bunch of work and results in broken builds
>> when you add files and forget to update everything correctly.
>>
>> Sandy
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 8:19 AM, Jared Jennings <jaredljennings at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > I have seen in other projects were a project is created for each IDE
>> > version. It worked very well for this type of thing. It might be another
>> > thing to track, but it would be nice. I was planning to start using 2010
>> > (once I get a copy).
>> > -Jared
>> >
>> >
>> > On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 11:11 AM, Sandy Armstrong
>> > <sanfordarmstrong at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 9:29 PM, Anand T <codingat at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> > Are there any plans to upgrade the project file to VS2010? If not,
>> any
>> >> > specific reasons?
>> >>
>> >> We'd want to make sure our Windows developers all use IDEs that
>> >> support that project format.  If Ben or somebody is stuck on VS2008 or
>> >> something I think that would be a compelling reason to stick with the
>> >> old format.  But I don't know what IDE Ben is currently using.
>> >>
>> >> Also, we would need to make sure that SharpDevelop and MonoDevelop
>> >> both support the upgraded project version.
>> >>
>> >> Sandy
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