Re: [cdt-dev] RIP Wascana, Build System discussion

[Jesper Eskilson <jesper.eskilson@xxxxxx>]

Doug Schaefer wrote:

> I'm not sure though that the MBS was ever built to support integrations 
> like this. It was intended to behave just as Visual C++ does, which also 
> doesn't deal well with external build tools. It's important that we keep 
> that in mind.

Isn't that a pretty lousy approach? That way you're guaranteed to annoy 
as many people as possible: people used to the way VC++ does things will 
be annoyed because it isn't VC++-ish enough, and other people will be 
annoyed because it is too VC++-ish.

> And that's why I want to make it easier, or even provide integrations 
> for these external build tools to make it easier for users to adopt. 

I'm all for that.

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/Jesper