[reSIProcate] experimenting with Win 7, Visual Studio Express and Git
I've tried building from the trunk in a Win 7 Pro environment
I used the Visual Studio 2010 Express edition, which is free of charge
but requires a registration with Microsoft. The 2012 edition requires
Windows 8 so I haven't tried it.
As discussed in my earlier email exchange with Scott, the express
edition does not seem to support some optional build features such as
creating an installer. However, it did build the whole stack successfully.
I also tried using the popular "Git Extensions" for Windows, using the
mirror of reSIProcate on github. I've created two pages about it in the
wiki, with screenshots:
https://www.resiprocate.org/Quick_Windows_Git_Installation
https://www.resiprocate.org/Quick_Windows_Git_Clone_Checkout
In particular, the last image on the second page gives some insight into
how Git makes it possible to view activity across all branches. By
design, git keeps a copy of all data locally so there is no network
delay for such operations.