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March, 2007 

Using Python scripts to make up for CMT's deficiencies on Windows: 

http://www-glast.slac.stanford.edu/software/core/minutes_02272007.htm

Purpose (as I understand it)

  • Build VS2005 project files using python scripts rather than CMT, continue to use CMT for managing package lists
  •  Ran into trouble with packages building shareable libraries - due to issue with dumpbin (Tracy has a fix) - potentially will replace with python script or some other utility

Other Tools that are potentially impacted:

  • MrStudio
  • ReleaseManager
  • Workbook documentation

Questions:

  • Python scripts will be used exclusively on Windows while linux will continue to use CMT?
  • Do more recent versions of CMT support VS2005 or are there any plans to do so?  Does CMT-central have any wisdom to offer?
  • Can the UW terminal server be set up to allow those who are interested to play with the new python scripts to see how it works and how easily it is used?

MRStudio/MRvcmt

For what concern these tools, they are both just wrappers on external system commands, mainly CMT and CVS .. at the moment on windows when you click on the config button
they are calling CMT to generate also the vcproj files, while the solution file is
generated internally by some Ruby code .. so, I don't see any problem if, instead of calling CMT, MRStudio/MRvcmt will call python scripts to generate vcproj and some other scripts to generate sln files (that btw will free me from the task of writing sln file generators, something I will be really happy), apart from the fact that python need to be installed on the user box (not a problem at all).

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