[Issue 18639] VisualD - First 5 minutes - Improve list of project wizards, propritise MSBuild projects

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Mon Apr 30 08:29:06 UTC 2018


https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18639

--- Comment #9 from Rainer Schuetze <r.sagitario at gmx.de> ---
(In reply to Manu from comment #8)
> Looks great!
> 
> I'd change the text slightly:
> "This is based on a **custom** project type designed for the D programming
> language"  <- I would add the word 'custom' to make it clear.

I actually removed "custom" from that line at some time ;-) But I have no
strong preference.

> And I'd append some detail about the current limitations to the D/C++
> project rave.

I wanted to wait with that until it actually comes clear what these limitations
will be in the next release.

> I also managed to crash the wizard. I created a VisualD project, and it
> worked fine, if I select DMD and LDC on the D/C++ wizard, it worked fine,
> but if I only choose DMD or LDC by themselves (with other options in default
> states), I get an exception.

Yeah, the conditionals available during VS template generation are very
brittle. I'm now trying another workaround, but also found a few other
omissions with respect to project generation.

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