[CMake] MSVC 2010

[David Cole]

On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Hendrik Sattler <post at hendrik-sattler.de>wrote:

> Am Dienstag 18 Januar 2011, 18:05:50 schrieb Mateusz Loskot:
> > On 18/01/11 16:15, David Cole wrote:
> > > Your confusion is that you are looking for a "2010" -- there isn't one
> > > -- there is "Visual Studio 10"
> >
> > David,
> >
> > This is indeed a mess in CMake.
> > There is no such product as Visual Studio 10.
> > Also, there is no Microsoft product named "Visual Studio .NET 2005".
>
> 10.4 million google hits, some on microsoft.com (although I wouldn't take
> that
> page as proper history indication), tell something different. I don' think
> all
> those authors invented the same name by accident.
>
> HS
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Obviously, practically speaking, they are one and the same. The GUI and
splash screen and about dialog all say "Visual Studio 2010 ...", but the
installation directory is "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio
10.0".

I think the problem is... these strings are used as "-G" arguments to CMake.
So... we cannot take away the -G strings that already work. But I suppose if
we wanted to "make things consistent" someday within CMake, we could keep
all the existing -G strings and keep them working the same as they do now,
but then make the new and improved version have all consistent strings,
referenced in a good order and with good phrasing.

Comments indicating what people think is "good" here would be most welcome
in this bug entry:
http://vtk.org/Bug/view.php?id=10158


Thanks a lot,
David
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