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I was just trying to think of something that wouldn't get messed up 
again.

I was up till 4am last night at eRubyCon, and this is just me thinking
outloud....

I've had it in my mind to write a msbuild plugin for Rake, instead of
maintaining the csproj files directly, how about maintaining them in 
rake
files that can generate csproj files on demand?  That way we're not 
beholden
to VS strong armness?

Just a random crazy thought.

Just so I understand, if I wanted to load the files in Visual Studio,
I would run a rake file which would generate me the csproj + sln and
launch VS?

On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 7:38 PM, Michael Letterle

You could yes, my assumption would be that pregenerated csproj + sln 
files
would be there already though for people that don't have a ruby 
installation
already.

That's the way I hoped it would work after clicking send ;)

On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 8:47 PM, Michael Letterle

Ben Hall:

> Just so I understand, if I wanted to load the files in Visual Studio, I
> would run a rake file which would generate me the csproj + sln and
> launch VS?

Nope. The files in the distribution have the correct layout. The 
Rakefile is only used by us to transform our internal dir layout into 
the external-facing one.

Thanks,
-John

Michael Letterle:

> I was up till 4am last night at eRubyCon, and this is just me thinking
> outloud....
>
> I've had it in my mind to write a msbuild plugin for Rake, instead of
> maintaining the csproj files directly, how about maintaining them in
> rake files that can generate csproj files on demand?  That way we're
> not beholden to VS strong armness?
>
> Just a random crazy thought.

I don't think this would really work in practice, since files are added 
by folks who use the IDE all the time.

Thanks,
-John

The assumption would be that the project layouts don't change that 
often,
certainly less often the the cs files which is what is really being
maintained in the IDE most of the time.

On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 10:04 AM, John Lam (IRONRUBY)