Re: [Wxdevide-devs] New dev file format

[Malcolm N. <m.n...@wa...>]

Tony Reina wrote:
> Now that I'm looking at the MSVC file importer code, it occurred to me 
> that I'd really like to update the .dev file format when we move to 
> wxDevIDE. In particular, the compiler switches are just a string of 
> characters (e.g. "000a0001b0000000"). I hate that. It's pretty hard to 
> know what "a" means or what switch it refers to.
> I'm wondering whether we can kill several birds with one stone. What 
> if we use Bakefile (or CMake) as the new .dev file format? So a 
> Bakefile will hold the project information (or workspace, or whatever 
> you want to call it). When we hit "Compile" or "Rebuild All" the 
> makefile is autogenerated by the Bakefile system. So we still use 
> makefile, but we let Bakefile generate them.
> The advantage is that this is much less code for us to handle (no 
> makefile generation code). Also, projects are more easily ported to 
> other OS's and compiler sets (since Bakefile is portable).
> -Tony


I'm not saying "do it", but I do think that it is worth investigating. I 
would probably prefer bakefile as opposed to cmake, since this is the 
"official" wxWidgets way, but whichever way you want to investigate is 
OK by me.

Mal