Re: [PATCH 1/5] Makefile: drop builtins from MSVC pdb list

> On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 11:04:28AM -0400, Taylor Blau wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 10:57:19AM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
>>> Over the years some more programs have become builtins, but nobody
>>> updated this MSVC-specific section of the file (which specifically says
>>> that it should not include builtins). Let's bring it up to date.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
>>> ---
>>> Given that nobody has mentioned this, it makes me wonder if anybody is
>>> even using this part of the Makefile at all these days. Or maybe having
>>> extra lines here isn't a problem (though it's also missing some entries,
>>> like one for git-bugreport).
>>
>> If having extra entries didn't cause a problem, I would suspect that it
>> was just that. But that missing entries *also* doesn't cause a problem,
>> I'd suspect that this section of the Makefile just isn't being used.
>>
>> Of course, I'm not using it since I'm not on Windows, but maybe dscho or
>> Stolee would know if there are legitimate uses. Of course, if there
>> aren't, I'm favor of getting rid of this section entirely.
> 
> I cc'd Jeff Hostetler, who added it. :)
> 
> I'm also pretty not-knowledgeable about Windows, but I think that
> anybody using MSVC would do so through Visual Studio these days. And
> that's being covered with recent cmake stuff. Or maybe I'm just
> clueless. We'll see.