[CMake] Workflow of a collaborative project in Visual Studio+CMake

[John Drescher]

On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Bill Hoffman <bill.hoffman at kitware.com> wrote:
> On 11/12/2011 10:51 AM, John Drescher wrote:
>>>
>>> It basically comes down to the inconvenience of having to do that with
>>> Visual Studio being outweighed (considerably!) by the cross-platform
>>> benefits of CMake.  (It does help that none of our developers use Windows
>>> as
>>> their primary development platform, so it only comes up when we make sure
>>> things are working on Windows...)
>>>
>>
>> I use Visual Studio 2010 daily for the last 6 months or so and the bug
>> is not that difficult for me to work with at all. I do admit it is
>> annoying when you get prompted 50 times to reload projects but most of
>> the time it does not do that. I mean if you only add files to a single
>> project it will not prompt you for the other 49. Now if I know the
>> change will be big, I usually close the solution and run cmake
>> externally from a script.
>>
> Does this solution work for VS 2010:
>
> There is an out of cmake solution for this.
>
> http://vscommands.com/ [^]
>
> If you install the VSCommands plugin free version, it will fix the reload
> dialog to only ask once.
>
I have not tried that. I will do so and report back in around 2 weeks.
I am leaving for a vacation at 4:00 AM tomorrow and I do not think I
will have any time to test this..

John