But I partially agree with the statement that Eric Grange made at DelphiTools as part of his post via Don’t publish your .dproj/.groupproj a few years ago:
Ad interim, .dproj are just a kludge by design
I completely disagree with hist blog post title: in my opinion “Do publish your .dproj/.groupproj in version control systems”
The discussion that followed in the comments was quite interesting: to bad I missed it back then.
Both .dproj and .groupproj are indeed a bit of a kludge. The main reason is that there is little documentation about them on the Embarcadero sites: most of it are threads on the forums.
msbuild
If you remember that basically they are just msbuild XML files, which is part of the .NET 2.0 framework and higher, and both extensively documented and extendable, then it gets much easier. Read the rest of this entry »
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