Generate Platform Specific Project Files

[haacked]

I recently blogged about how our build now validates that a file added to Octokit.csproj is also added to the platform project files such as Octokit-Monotouch.csproj etc.

However, this is still 💩 work. Ideally, contributors would only need to add a file to Octokit.csproj and run a build script (or even better just compile the solution) and we'd automatically add it to the other projects. Or perhaps we generate the other projects. It doesn't really matter as long as the end-result is the same.

Update
I hear that Gyp might be good for this. It requires Python though which our contributors might not have. It could be something our build server runs and does for contributors though.

[shiftkey]

Ideally, contributors would only need to add a file to Octokit.csproj and run a build script (or even better just compile the solution) and we'd automatically add it to the other projects.

A post-build step to update specific csproj files sounds like the simplest way to get things done. Only friction might be with modifying a csproj file as part of a build, but shouldn't be too hard to spike.

[haacked]

So the FAKE folks might do this

now that we are abe to detect missing files we might add a "fix it" task.

stay tuned.

[forki]

See #199