#! /bin/sh -e # This script downgrades MSVC 2008 projects to MSVC 2005 projects, allowing # people with MSVC 2005 to open them. Otherwise, MSVC 2005 simply refuses to # open projects created with 2008. We run this as part of our release process. # If you obtained the code direct from version control and you want to use # MSVC 2005, you may have to run this manually. (Hint: Use Cygwin or MSYS.) for file in *.sln; do echo "downgrading $file..." sed -i -re 's/Format Version 10.00/Format Version 9.00/g; s/Visual Studio 2008/Visual Studio 2005/g;' $file done for file in *.vcproj; do echo "downgrading $file..." sed -i -re 's/Version="9.00"/Version="8.00"/g;' $file done # Yes, really, that's it.