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

From: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Date: May 5, 2025, 14:33 UTC
Message-ID: <aBjMJO9VSAVjOQWB@pks.im>
In-Reply-To: <ddcbbd1a-dd36-a115-aa77-d5bd3c210cd7@gmx.de>

On Mon, May 05, 2025 at 03:46:14PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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> Hi Patrick,
> 
> On Mon, 5 May 2025, Patrick Steinhardt wrote:
> 
> > [I] 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.
> 
> I would like to avoid that, as the `contrib/vscode/` files do not even
> have anything in the way of building Git. Instead, there is a
> configuration that allows Intellisense to find the symbols' declarations
> and definitions, and it specifies a little bit the style conventions as
> well as common terms that the cSpell checker benefits from.
> 
> I use this on almost a daily basis, so I believe that `contrib/vscode/` is
> in a _much_ better shape than `contrib/buildsystems/`' Visual Studio
> support code ever was. For that reason, I am a lot more in favor of
> keeping the `vscode/` stuff.

Fine with me, thanks for the explanation!

Patrick