Had another 48hr game jam this weekend...

[Walter Bright]

On 9/1/2013 1:56 PM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
> 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?)
>

Pull requests are, of course, welcome.