Re: svn commit: rev 5174 - trunk/build/generator

Greg Stein wrote:

>Before going hog-wild replacing everything with EZT templates, I wanted to
>ask the list about it. My idea was to use the templates for the .dsp files,
>.dsw files, and anything else where there is a good chunk of boilerplate
>that is needed.
>
>(note that templating doesn't apply the same to the Unix makefiles cuz
> Makefile.in has all the "boilerplate" and build-outputs.mk is just the real
> barebones data)
>
>The advantage that I see is that we're moving from a procedural to a
>declarative approach for the output files. Theoretically :-), the templates
>are easier to edit. Also note that I've set the template to the right line
>endings (altho it seems the output doesn't have it, so I gotta figure out
>where they got lost).
>
>After looking at the XML-ish nastiness in gen_vcnet_vcproj.py, I'd much
>rather swap out that gunk for a simple template.
>
>Thoughts?
>
>
Aye! Template files embedded in code are yucky.

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Brane Čibej   <brane_at_xbc.nu>   http://www.xbc.nu/brane/
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