From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 05 May 2025 13:46:14 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] contrib/buildsystems: drop support for building .vcproj/.vcxproj files
Message-ID: <ddcbbd1a-dd36-a115-aa77-d5bd3c210cd7@gmx.de>
In-Reply-To: <aBi8KQWP4YAi6Gph@pks.im>

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.

Ciao,
Johannes