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Mon, 5 May 2025 09:25:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPSA id e6cfcb93 (TLSv1.3:TLS_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256:256:NO); Mon, 5 May 2025 13:24:58 +0000 (UTC) Date: Mon, 5 May 2025 15:24:57 +0200 From: Patrick Steinhardt To: Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] contrib/buildsystems: drop support for building .vcproj/.vcxproj files Message-ID: References: <1ec2a4bb1d58ea8cfa6abb2a0e625ef3e0db2a1f.1746430790.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1ec2a4bb1d58ea8cfa6abb2a0e625ef3e0db2a1f.1746430790.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com> On Mon, May 05, 2025 at 07:39:49AM +0000, Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget wrote: > From: Johannes Schindelin > > Before we had CMake support, the only way to build Git in Visual Studio > was via this hacky `generate` script. > > For a while I tried to fix whenever things got broken, in particular to > allow building confidence in embargoed releases by running the CI builds > in Azure Pipelines in a private Azure DevOps project. I even carried the > patches in Git for Windows with the intention of upstreaming them, > eventually. > > However, it is a lot of work with too little benefit. CMake is much > better supported by Visual Studio. So let's drop this hacky script (plus > support code). Makes sense. This made me wonder whether we also want to get rid of "contrib/vscode", which is similar in spirit. Both Meson and CMake can be used natively with VSCode. Thanks for working on these cleanups! Patrick