On Mon, 26 Jan 2009, Pierre Joye wrote:

> It is easy to create a SLN, it is not easy to maintain it for all VC
> versions (VC6, 2008 and 2010 next year). Makefile has one advantage, they
> work with all compilers, they are easy to maintain and to use (what is hard
> in: nmake /f Makefile.vc release-zlib-ssl?)

Yes, I think it is important that no matter what approach is chosen, it needs
to be setup with easily edited text files so that we can auto-generate it on
demand and it can be edited/updated by people who don't particularly use the
output (people like me) without too much magic.

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