Ahh - but we already have - David's compile.py knows how to use COM to automate DevStudio builds :-) In fact, with the COM extensions we could create and build a DevStudio project from scratch I believe. But I dont think we should.
Don't even need COM. The project files are just text after all. The wxWindows team uses tmake from Troll Tech to generate makefiles for all the various Windows compilers, Makefile.in for GNU configure, and VC++ workspace/project files. Since it's a perl based tool I couldn't stomach using it myself and since distutils wasn't usable yet I created my own script that can make makefiles for VC++ or Unix based systems and can also drive running make. Works pretty good. -- Robin Dunn Software Craftsman robin@AllDunn.com http://AllDunn.com/robin/ http://AllDunn.com/wxPython/ Check it out!