Adjust Visual Studio compilation guide to account for new contributors #1927
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Summary
SUMMARY: Other "Adjust Visual Studio compilation guide to account for new contributors"
Purpose of change
Attempt to prevent new contributors from making the same mistakes by adjusting and expanding the documentation.
List of issues:
astyle
meansArtistic Style
make astyle
Debug
configuration and wonder where did their performance go (Debug
builds in VS may be an order of magnitude slower thanRelease
ones)Describe the solution
astyle
is short forArtistic Style
doc/img/
and use local linksDiscourage the use ofDebug
configuration by insinuating it's for power users :)Add explanation on Debug vs Release builds, and suggest the latter for one-off compilations.
Testing
Guess we'll just have to monitor
#development
channel for a few months