From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ramsay Jones Subject: Re: [PATCH v2b 00/16, 2 updates] Make the msvc-build scripts work again Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2015 23:57:35 +0100 Message-ID: <55B01FDF.7030004@ramsay1.demon.co.uk> References: <1437432846-5796-1-git-send-email-philipoakley@iee.org> <73004CECB3514744A5916831B4501689@PhilipOakley> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Git List , Eric Sunshine To: Junio C Hamano , Philip Oakley X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jul 23 01:03:13 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZI32c-0005wq-Nz for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Jul 2015 01:03:11 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752611AbbGVXDF (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jul 2015 19:03:05 -0400 Received: from mdfmta010.mxout.tbr.inty.net ([91.221.168.51]:37286 "EHLO smtp.demon.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752556AbbGVXDE (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jul 2015 19:03:04 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 324 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Wed, 22 Jul 2015 19:03:03 EDT Received: from mdfmta010.tbr.inty.net (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by mdfmta010.tbr.inty.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 120776F8F34; Wed, 22 Jul 2015 23:56:27 +0100 (BST) Received: from mdfmta010.tbr.inty.net (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by mdfmta010.tbr.inty.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C50F56F8E95; Wed, 22 Jul 2015 23:56:26 +0100 (BST) Received: from [10.0.2.15] (unknown [80.176.147.220]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mdfmta010.tbr.inty.net (Postfix) with ESMTP; Wed, 22 Jul 2015 23:56:26 +0100 (BST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.8.0 In-Reply-To: X-MDF-HostID: 3 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 21/07/15 20:25, Junio C Hamano wrote: > "Philip Oakley" writes: > >> ... Ideally, if part of this >> mainstream Git, it would get picked up automatically by them >> (rather than being local 'fixes' endlessly carried forward). > > Actually, that is not "ideal", but what I want to avoid. > > As I do not do Windows, it simply is wrong for me to apply changes > that are very likely to affect Windows folks without seeing their > support first, which they may end up having to revert on their end > and endlessly carry that revert forward. That is why I very much > prefer to see changes get there first and then forwarded in my > direction once they are happy with them. > >> There has been no activity here on the 'create a visual studio project' >> aspects in the last few years. Any changes listed in the logs relate to >> ensuring that the MSVC compiler will run as part of a regular Makefile >> run (IIUC). The last significant commit was 74cf9bd (engine.pl: Fix a >> recent breakage of the buildsystem generator, 2010-01-22) Ramsay Jones, >> so that's five and a half years. > > I think Ramsay is still around on the list; I do not know if he > still does Windows, though. [Sorry for not noticing this sooner, but I'm currently moving home (among other things) and, as a result, I have not been able to devote much time to the list ... (or anything else ;-) ] I don't do much with MinGW or MSVC these days (I do still try to keep cygwin running - it's currently not in good shape). My MSVC installation is somewhat old (2008 I believe) and confined to my old 32-bit laptop (which doesn't get booted up too often now). I had a quick squint at the patches and, at first glance, they looked quite reasonable to me, but I have not tested them. I can't promise to test them anytime soon (and my MSVC may be too old for these patches?). Sorry! :( [If I find some time soon, I will give them a try and let you know.] ATB, Ramsay Jones