RE: WinSVN: Initial questions

From: Mark Murphy [mailto:mmurphy@collab.net]

> > If this creature is only going to run on Windows, I don't see any
> > problem with using Visual Basic. Maybe Branko will have an issue with
> > it because of the build system, but that's the only problem I can see.

> There's no question building VB apps typically doesn't follow the normal
make system.

> There *is* some way to compile a VB app outside the IDE -- the VB Package
Wizard
> can recompile a project. But I don't know if that interface is documented,
or whether
> we'd want to use it to somehow build WinSVN as part of the overall build
system.

Of course there is, and it is documented at:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/devprods/vs6/vbasic/vbcon98/vbconmakingrun
ningexecutablefile.htm

Snippet:
Vb6 /make projectname[.vbp] [exename]

Bill
Received on Sat Oct 21 14:36:16 2006