[OT] Re: There's new GIT instructions on Github now

[Daniel Gibson]

Am 21.05.2011 02:17, schrieb Robert Clipsham:
> On 21/05/2011 00:46, Daniel Gibson wrote:
>> Am 21.05.2011 01:34, schrieb Andrej Mitrovic:
>>> What's there to configuring visual studio? You just open a solution
>>> file and hit compile. If there are any dependencies you usually
>>> download the libs and put them in some subfolder.
>>>
>>
>> I don't have much experience with visual studio, but I've read that
>> using a project from one version in another (newer) version may not
>> always be painless, e.g.
>> http://twitter.com/#!/ID_AA_Carmack/status/45616436995039232
> 
> Each version contains a migration tool, which has worked reasonably well
> for me in the past.

OK

> 
>> And how well do projects from a professional version work in the free
>> (Visual Studio Express) version?
> 
> Last time I checked they don't.
> 

And the other way round?
It seems to me that providing a Visual Studio project isn't any better
for the average end user (or even developer, who may use the other kind
of Visual Studio or DMC or even Code::Blocks, Eclipse or Dev-C++) than
providing a configure script and a Makefile for MSYS/MinGW (and maybe a
batch script that triggers the build).

But, as I said before, end users on Windows don't compile, they expect
ready to use binaries, preferably with a nice installer - and they don't
care if those binaries were produced by DMC, MSVC or MinGW as long as
the resulting program doesn't need cygwin to run.
And developers that want to mess around with the code should be able to
deal with it or even port it to DMC or MSVC or whatever themselves.