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