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Re: [PATCH 2/3] contrib/buildsystems: drop support for building .vcproj/.vcxproj files

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Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Date
May 5, 2025, 13:24 UTC
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On Mon, May 05, 2025 at 07:39:49AM +0000, Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget wrote:
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> From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
> 
> 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
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Message 5 of 10 in “Some CI/buildsystems cleanup”
  1. 0/3 Some CI/buildsystems cleanupJohannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget, May 5, 2025
  2. 1/3 ci: stop linking the `prove` cacheJohannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget, May 5, 2025
  3. 3/3 config.mak.uname: drop the `vcxproj` targetJohannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget, May 5, 2025
  4. 2/3 contrib/buildsystems: drop support for building .vcproj/.vcxproj filesJohannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget, May 5, 2025
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  6. Johannes SchindelinMay 5, 2025
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