Yes.
But
initially, I wanted to make it so that anyone, especially a
newbie, could go from discovering ReactOS, to an
edit-compile-link-debug cycle of “Hello, World!” within the
IDE in 30 minutes or less (not the OS, just a single app).
That means accommodating whatever version of Visual Studio
they are using. VS2008 is safe, because, no matter which
version they are using: VS2008, VS2010, VS2011, or VS2012,
the conversion would be done automatically, on their
machine, and since the project files in SVN would be locked,
there’d be no harm done to SVN using this method. However,
if I start out with VS2012, for example, then, sure, they
could go and download VS2012 alongside say, VS2010…but my
goal was to present a totally new user with the SVN URL for
ReactOS, and say, “Here is is. Give it a try!”, and remove
all excuses for them trying it out. [I figured that having
to install a 1GB+ tool alongside a very similar tool was a
bigger excuse for most newbie developers than having to wait
< 5 minutes to watch the VS2012 do its conversion.]
That
said, if Visual Studio users came back and said, “We’re not
using VS2008 anyway!” then I would change it, and I am
definitely open to ideas on this.
Sent:
Friday, January 04, 2013 3:43 AM
To: 'ReactOS Development List'
Subject: Re: [ros-dev] Notice Of Intent - Visual
Studio Build of ReactOS
VS2008?
Shouldn’t you be doing this in 2012, especially
considering the much improved support for kernel mode
projects.
At the very least you should be using 2010 as
2012 can open 2010 project without modification to project
files.
Yes,
it is one thing to create a project file, which takes 15-30
seconds. It is another thing to get the configuration right.
Fortunately, there are copious notes and highly-readable
scripts in the tree which practically say what needs to be
done, so I do not anticipate any major hurdles.
I
spent a little time in the source tree today. I integrated a
few modules into Visual Studio 2008, an tested calc,
by buiding it from within Visual Studio for x86-32 and
x86-64. It ran fine, thanks to the author(Mr. Carlo Bramini)
who left good notes in his source code. Just for kicks, I
also created an ARM-based project that would run on the
Raspberry Pi, compiled it from within VS2008, and ran it
inside the emulator that comes with VS2008. That ran fine
also. Tomorrow I will ask a colleague to try the following:
1. Pull
the repository to his local hard disk from inside Visual
Studio.
2. Hit
Build.
3. Run
calc in an edit- compile-debug loop.
Am 02.01.2013 19:04, schrieb J. C. Jones:
It
would take 2-3 hours to create VS projects for all
user-mode modules.
No offence,
but I think you are highly underestimating the magnitude of
our codebase. We are talking about several hundred modules.
And you probably also overestimate the pace at which you can
create project files. I did that myself for a much smaller
project, so I know what I'm talking about.
But maybe I'm wrong and they call you "The Machine" :D