On Saturday, February 21, 2015 at 5:05:47 AM UTC+8, Nathan Froyd wrote: > Hi all, > > When discussing the recent transition to only supporting unified builds, some > people were apparently concerned about how this would affect Visual Studio > projects (i.e. Intellisense), since the Visual Studio project files generated > via |mach build-backend| only listed the individual source files, and not the > unified files that were actually compiled. Bug 1122812[1] was filed, and I > fixed Visual Studio projects to include the unified files instead of the > individual files. > > > It turns out that this breaks the way some people use Visual Studio projects > (i.e. Intellisense), rather than fixing it, as was the intent. > > > I confess that I'm not using Visual Studio to develop Firefox, so I'm looking > for people's input: > > > - What do you use Visual Studio project files for? > > - Did bug 1122812 make Intellisense (and related IDE usage) worse or better > for you? > > > Backing out the problematic change in bug 1122812 isn't a big deal, but I'd > like to understand how people are actually using the project files and what > actually breaks (or continues working) for folks. > > > > Thanks, > -Nathan > > [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1122812
I can't open the unified files, and the real source files are not there, so I think it's broken. _______________________________________________ dev-builds mailing list dev-builds@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-builds
