Visual Studio project generator broken

[jay]

>generate vc10
20743/ was unexpected at this time.

This is an unusual one. The command interpreter may still process special characters in REM comments in batch files, and in this case interprets a question mark in a URL as path globbing or some such.

>rem /?foo=bar/
bar/ was unexpected at this time.

Introduced in d49881c#diff-227457f73d3f44861a493547a1a5a59e

To remedy this I'm going to remove that NOTE. FYI @captain-caveman2k @vszakats

[mback2k]

Thanks @jay. @captain-caveman2k and I always wondered why vc10 fails.

[vszakats]

@jay Sorry about this. Another, more generic solution would be to switch
to use :: as comment marker. It would resolve this issue and be more readable too.
It's supported way back into MS-DOS, so it should be safe:

:: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20080926-00/?p=20743/

[vszakats]

Patch:
vszakats@a197b88

[jay]

It's not your fault, just a bug. I would argue it's a Windows bug but the way they document it you can't really be sure. I've programmed a lot of batch and I've never seen that happen before. I don't think it's necessary to change all .bat comments from rem to :: to address this issue. That note is stale anyway since we no longer set the errorlevel.