[ros-dev] Putting MIDL output into svn repository.

[Eric Kohl]

Saveliy Tretiakov wrote:

> May I add some midl generated files into svn? (like we do with flex and 
> bison)  Lack of features in widl is a great stopper to ReactOS 
> development. Actually, I can't do anything with event logging api 
> because of widl. I want to inplment some rpcss functionality, but widl 
> stops me from doing this.

I am against committing MIDL generated files to SVN for the following 
reasons:

1) The use of MIDL might defer improvements to WIDL.

2) We always need to clean-up the MIDL generated files.

3) Some features missing from WIDL require additional support from 
rpcrt4.dll. Context handles for example require some not-yet-implemented 
rpcrt4 functions. Just using MIDL instead of WIDL won't fix this issue.


PS: Saveliy, which WIDL features do you need?


Regards,
Eric