[Spice-devel] [vdagent-win 1/2] build: Automatically update version/copyright in .rc files

[Frediano Ziglio]

> 
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 04:39:05AM -0500, Frediano Ziglio wrote:
> > It's a lot of time I don't use rc files extensively but surely include
> > files are supported. I think the GNU rc compiler implementation uses
> > the standard C preprocessor while if I remember correctly the
> > preprocessor used by VS for rc files is a bit less powerful.
> > Would be great of the VS project could use the same versioning schema.
> > I think actually it's using git tags. I'll try today to test the bare
> > include (without automatically generate from git tag).
> 
> On second thought, is it worth spending a lot of time on VS support?
> With your patches fixing image c&p, I'd push for always building the
> agent with mingw and drop the VS files.
> 
> Christophe
> 

I tested the include stuff. Much better than I remembered.
But editing version information inside VS loose all defines :(
Also if you edit the file manually you have to delete an .aps file
as VS don't update the visual editor with the new .rc file...

Frediano