From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2025 08:38:27 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] contrib/buildsystems: drop support for building .vcproj/.vcxproj files
Message-ID: <c3273a46-aab4-8dda-1634-9de233290f55@gmx.de>
In-Reply-To: <1ec2a4bb1d58ea8cfa6abb2a0e625ef3e0db2a1f.1746430790.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

Hi Junio,

On Mon, 5 May 2025, Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget wrote:

> 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).

I just noticed that you applied this patch as dc5e178f608f
(contrib/buildsystems: drop support for building . vcproj/.vcxproj files,
2025-05-05). Notice the incorrect space between "." and "vcproj". Any idea
where that came from?

Ciao,
Johannes