Had another 48hr game jam this weekend...

[Andrej Mitrovic]

On 9/1/13, Brad Anderson <eco at gnuk.net> wrote:
>> What I need from you guys and your different VS installs is,
>> for each one, a bug report with what is necessary to get it
>> installed. Then we can add it to the modern version of my
>> floppy disk "linker collection".
>
> This can be automated easily enough.  The installer can detect
> what versions of VS are installed and either set an environment
> variable or modify sc.ini (your choice).  It could probably be
> made forward compatible since Microsoft has been using basically
> the same paths and registry keys for every new release since at
> least VS 2005.

Yes, and VS comes out what, maybe once a year? This is possible to
implement and maintain. If it weren't, then installing VS plugins
would be impossible, but as far as I know it mostly works out of the
box (hell, VisualD does it, so why can't we do something as simple as
detect VS paths?)