[x264-devel] MSVC project files

[Jason Garrett-Glaser]

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 11:50 PM, Gabriel Bouvigne
<bouvigne at mp3-tech.org> wrote:
> Jason Garrett-Glaser a écrit :
>
>> Visual Studio now supports C99?  In that case it might not be entirely
>> unreasonable to re-add support.  We originally dropped support because
>> it wasn't a C99 compiler, and x264 uses a lot of C99 syntax.
>
> C99 vs msvc issues aside, what about the following:
>
> It seems to me that either Loreen or Jason don't see any value in having up
> to date msvc project files (please correct me if I'm wrong), which is fair
> as you're not using them.
> So I'm offering to support the msvc/icl project files myself, so all you'd
> have to do would be to commit the patches.
> For the C99ism which is not understood by MSVC (which is indeed annoying),
> I'd eventually send patches, but separated from the project ones. This way
> you'd choose to commit them or not.
>
> This way we'd have:
> *up to date project files
> *icl would be able to directly use the project files (reminder: on windows,
> icl is available as a "plug in" for msvc)
>
> Sounds reasonable, doesn't it?

We do not intend to support non-C99 compilers.  The reason that we use
C99isms is because it makes the code cleaner and more maintainable.
If we thought they should be removed, we would have never written them
in the first place.

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