Re: Conversion of mac Projects to Windows
Re: Conversion of mac Projects to Windows
- Subject: Re: Conversion of mac Projects to Windows
- From: Art Isbell <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 16:05:13 -1000
On Wednesday, March 26, 2003, at 02:50 PM, Brendon Allen wrote:
Here is the problem, how do you get a Mac Project Builder File to work
on
the PC? Especially since OS X makes bundles (ie folders) look like
files.
We moved it over and tried to open then project file inside the OS X
project
file (this is a folder in reality) and it would not open. Can we do
this?
No. The Project Builder used under Windows is an old version no
longer included with OS X. OS X's projects are incompatible with the
Windows Project Builder.
I suppose you could install ProjectBuilderWO under OS X
(http://developer.apple.com/qa/qa2001/qa1072.html) and share projects
using the old project format between OS X and Windows. But doing so
would be to penalize all OS X developers in favor of one Windows
developer because the new OS X Project Builder is much improved and
more stable than ProjectBuilderWO.
Maybe a better approach would be to create a new project under Windows
using the same files as in the OS X project. Java source, WO
components, images, etc. are identical between the two project types.
However, the project file/directory differ, so they can't be shared.
ProjectBuilderWO uses "make" and makefiles whereas the OS X Project
Builder uses jam, so related files can't be shared.
If it is too much of a pain we will get him a Mac for development as
we want
to be able to check into CVS and if he has to mod a lot it will be a
pain to
unmod it for checkin.
You can safely share all but the file types listed above between OS X
and Windows projects from a CVS repository. But if both OS X and
Windows developers check in their entire projects including project
files/directories and makefiles, then each group will get unneeded
files when entire projects are checked out. I can't think of any
conflicts this would cause, but I've never tried it.
A safer solution would be for everyone to develop under OS X. Maybe
the Windows developer will become a switcher :-)
Aloha,
Art
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