[Chandler-dev] Building Chandler on windows with a more recent Visual Studio

[Grant Baillie]

This came up during today's checkin: Jeffrey mentioned that we should  
see if Chandler can be built using a free (or definitely more recent)  
version of Microsoft Visual Studio. Currently, we run MS Visual  
Studio .Net 2003 on the build machines.

As Jeffrey mentioned, Heikki looked into this a while back, and it  
turns out he documented what he did extensively (Thanks, Heikki!):

+ wiki summary: http://chandlerproject.org/Journal/VisualC2005ExpressEdition
+ bug with more detail: https://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5671
   (see also the 2 "Depends on" bugs, 1 of which is fixed)
+ short dev list thread: http://markmail.org/message/ughue52fb5ktnfbf

The upshot seems to be:

+ there were some DLL issues to solve (though it's possible those have  
been mitigated by the PyLucene switch to openjdk)
+ some optimization ("performance guided optimization") is not  
available in the free version.

Anyway, this makes me thing going down this path is a bit of a can of  
worms for now ...

--Grant