[ros-dev] Notice Of Intent - Visual Studio Build of ReactOS

[J. C. Jones]

Not so much of a problem, but more of an exploration to see how close Visual
Studio could get to the cycle that novice Visual Studio coders are
accustomed to, which, of course, would not require cmake. I, Amine, and
others had a nice chat in IRC earlier today and we tossed around a few
ideas, which we agreed to explore off-line from the main project.

 

But to be clear, we are not changing from cmake as the main build process.

 

-JC

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Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2013 3:59 PM
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Subject: Re: [ros-dev] Notice Of Intent - Visual Studio Build of ReactOS

 

What exactly is the problem here? That prebuilt VS solutions aren't included
instead of requiring CMake to generate them first, or what?

On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 2:46 PM, J. C. Jones <jaibuduvin at gmail.com> wrote:

Hi All,

Some of you might have seen my recent on the post regarding the build
process:
http://www.reactos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9
<http://www.reactos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=12240&start=15>
&t=12240&start=15

As I mentioned, it would help greatly to lower the barrier-to-entry to
less-experienced developers, as well as more experienced developers who
might have limited time budgets [Who among us does not have a limited time
budget?].

I wanted to send out this message to let everyone know that I intend to use
what bit of time that I available right now, at the beginning of January, to
tackle this issue head-on. Again, my purpose here is not to step on anyone's
toes, but make certain that we never turn away a potentially-valuable
contributor simply because they are unnecessarily removed from their
development comfort zone. I do realize that there is already on-going work
on the build process, and I have no intention of interfering with that.

I will wait 24-hours for any objections/reservations from now before making
a hard commitment, but frankly, we really to get this done, like right now.

Happy New Year. :)

-JC


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