Motion to rename "WindowedApp" to "GraphicalApp"

[KageKirin]

Hi,

related to the documentation PR #417, I'd like to motion to rename WindowedApp to GraphicalApp.
(I'm preparing a PR for this right now).

I'm open for comments and opinions about this.

PRO:

• "win*" configuration term to only match "windows" (or "win32", "winstore" etc), not "WindowedApp"
• using "vs*" for targeting "windows" seems a bit hazarduous, as technically VS can use other compilers more freely these days. I.e. technically, I could want to create VS projects using another compiler (e.g. android-clang, or some console-specific one) (and changes for this could go mostly into a customized version of BX's toolchain.lua).

CON:

• unless allowing "WindowedApp" as exposed alias, this will be a breaking change. (Then again, nothing that a short sed call couldn't fix).

Regards.

[KageKirin]

Ok, I made #419 as a WIP PR.

[bkaradzic]

cc @rhoot for 2nd opinion...

[rhoot]

While I agree with the sentiment (win* vs vs*), this would be a huge breaking change. Enough so that I think it'd be a bad idea. The alias might work though.

[bkaradzic]

using "vs*" for targeting "windows" seems a bit hazarduous, as technically VS can use other compilers more freely these days.

Btw, just to clarify this. Using "vs*" means in VS IDE & VS build system (in the same way as gmake means make, not GCC), it doesn't imply compiler. In bx toolchain you can see that you can specify --vs=<compiler> which would explicitly set compiler, or in some cases it's possible to combine platforms together in the same solution that would use 2 different compilers depending on configuration choosen.

[bkaradzic]

Are you trying to have one application that could be compiled as ConsoleApp or WindowedApp by using some configuration option?

Not quite clear what you're trying to achieve. And I never seen need to do any configuration based on type of app that might change. Usually it's one or another, and then you just apply settings that are appropriate.

[KageKirin]

I had a few places where configuration was set to match 'WindowedApp' explicitely, and those were fine.
Main reason for me to be actually doing this, is that I got repeatedly bitten by my own forgetfulness setting of win* for windows only settings, rather than using vs* (reason for this is that I wanted to be able build for windows using gmake+clang as well).

[bkaradzic]

Ideally GENie would have something like: operating system / compiler / arch / cpu / crt / build system / IDE, and then you would be able to filter based on any of those.

[KageKirin]

Sounds like a feasible idea.
Ideally, each 'category' would be prefixed to make filtering easier.
e.g. os-windows, os-linux, compiler-gcc, compiler-clang, compiler-msvc, arch-x86, arch-x64, arch-arm32, arch-arm64, ide-vs2019, ide-xcode10 etc.

Maybe for genie2? As these changes would be breaking backwards compatibility.

[bkaradzic]

Yeah, just slightly different: arch-32, arch-64, cpu-arm, cpu-x86. Also compiler-msvc-<version> would have to have version somehow.