So you'll have build directories build/temp.nt/Debug and build/temp.nt/Release -- is that somehow better than build/temp.nt-debug and build/temp.nt-release? I was kinda thinking along the latter lines; I don't *think* it makes any difference, apart from aesthetics. Does
Nope - just aesthetics. This is my preference, as it is a single directory to ignore, rather than 2 :-)
I'm guessing that The Microsoft Way would be to create an unnecessarily deep hierarchy.
Actually, by default it is very shallow - all temp and output files go into either ".\Release" or ".\Debug" - adding the intermediate layers (and sneaking them into Python itself) is my doing :-)
But given the 2 alternatives above, my preference is so slight it is barely worth mentioning :-)
I can't answer your other question...
Mark.