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

From: Daniel Rall <dlr_at_finemaltcoding.com>
Date: 2003-03-04 06:30:04 CET

=?UTF-8?B?QnJhbmtvIMSMaWJlag==?= <brane@xbc.nu> writes:

> 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.

EZT is good stuff

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