[antlr-interest] MSBUILD/Vs2008

[Sam Harwell]

I thought about that, but then you run into a problem if you want the
generated source files visible in your project. As soon as you add the
files to the project, Visual Studio starts pestering you to add them to
source control. I don't add the .tokens files to source control, but I
generally do like having the *Lexer/*Parser.cs files available. I'm
certainly open to any kind of suggestions (project/MSBUILD targets files
and/or Visual Studio extension ideas for my language service package)
for easing the integration of grammars into Visual C# projects.

Sam

-----Original Message-----
From: Gavin Lambert [mailto:antlr at mirality.co.nz] 
Sent: Thursday, October 08, 2009 2:23 PM
To: Sam Harwell; Jim Idle; antlr-interest at antlr.org
Subject: Re: [antlr-interest] MSBUILD/Vs2008

At 12:20 8/10/2009, Sam Harwell wrote:
>*         Create a working Clean target (which 
>carries over to Rebuild). For this to work with 
>source control, I need to make sure that:
>o   The generated code files are not written to 
>disk if their contents haven't changed.
>o   The same source file always generates the 
>same output file, which means removing relative 
>paths and timestamps from the comments.

Or, you know, you could just exclude the 
generated files from source control.  Provided 
that all developers have access to ANTLR (and can 
thus rebuild it) -- which they'd need anyway if 
it's integrated into the project like this -- 
then there's no need for the generated files to 
be in source control.  They can just be 
regenerated whenever required.