Are there Windows users of cons? Johan

[Zachary Deretsky]

Johan,

in over a year of use I have not had a single problem with Greg's
ConsExtensions.pl and I am not asking cons maintainers to maintain
this module. It is fine for it to live as an extension.

But in order to use it you need 2 small modifications
in cons proper. It is :S modifier which allows to take files from
the source directory (not from the Linked directory with .obj, etc
files) This allows editors (Visual Studio) and debuggers (gdb on unix)
to find sources correctly. Obviously, you solved the same problem
in your module.

There is also ! prefix similar to # which allows to place generated
.dsw and .dsp files into the source directories.

Note that these changes augment but do not change the existing
functionality.
All the current tests should run.

I have merged these changes into the 1.122 revision of cons,
they have to be moved to the current version.

Zach.

> That module solved most important problems I had with Cons on Win32:
>     - to find the PATH to Visual C++ automatically
>     - to support several languages beside C/C++ (RC-files, ...)
>     - place .OBJ and .EXE files in different directories without
>       relying on the "Link" command.
>
>
> I haven't used Greg Spencers modules, but I'm curious to know what
> the current problems are with those modules:
>
>  1) doesn't ConsExtensions.pl work at all with current versions of
>     Cons ?
>
>  2) if not, are changes needed in ConsExtensions.pl only, or are
>     changes needed in Cons itself ?
>
>  3) is ConsExtensions.pl "abandoned" by Greg, or has he plans to
>     maintain it (if any Cons specific problems in 2) are solved)

> From looking at Greg's code, it seems that a lot of "knowledge"
> (eg. about Visual C++) is built into that code.
>
> I don't think it is reasonable to *require* that all this should be
> "supported", especially if the maintainers are not using that code
> themselves.
>
> Wouldn't it be enough if ConsExtensions.pl could continue to "live"
> as an extension ?  But that would of course require that someone
> "maintained" it after Gregs initial release (see question 3 above).
>
>
> /Johan Holmberg
>
>
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