Heads up: VS2010 will let you define "make install"

Starting at about 9:10 in this video from PDC2008:

http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/pdc08/WMV-HQ/TL13.wmv

he describes how to set up custom tools in XML files that extend the IDE 
to add additional functionality.  This should make it possible to 
emulate more standard Makefile targets, like "make install".

Another interesting bit in this talk relevant to Bakefile is that you 
can set up build options to target other compilers.  If you have 
VC++2003, 2005 and 2008 installed, you can change just one project 
setting to get VS2010 to rebuild the project with those older tools, so 
you don't need separate project files for each version of Visual C++ you 
want to support.  You should just be able to have a separate build 
setting -- e.g. Debug2003, Release2003, Debug2005... -- for each tool 
set.  (Starts at about 14:00)  Do a single Build All command, and you've 
tested that your program builds with all compilers you target.  Coooool.

There's a technology preview (translation: not even beta yet) available 
for download:

http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/2010/

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