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From: Jonathan S. Katz <[email protected]>
To: Andres Freund <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Peter Geoghegan <[email protected]>
To: Andrew Dunstan <[email protected]>
To: Amit Kapila <[email protected]>
To: Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: When to drop src/tools/msvc support
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2023 15:19:20 -0400
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>

On 4/8/23 3:10 PM, Andres Freund wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'd planned to write this soon anyway, but it was just brought up in [1].
> 
> Originally we had planned to drop src/tools/msvc support shortly after meson
> went in. Unfortunately, it took a bit longer than originally hoped for to
> merge meson support and then longer than hoped to add buildfarm support. I
> don't think there's been any buildfarm client release with meson support yet -
> but we do have windows buildfarm animals using it.
> 
> Do we want to drop src/tools/msvc support in 16 (i.e. now), or do it early in
> 17?
> 
> I do have a set of patches removing src/tools/msvc. There are a few loose ends
> that I know of (my eyes glaze over every time I try to reconcile the
> src/tools/perl.m4 comments with the referenced comments in Mkvcbuild.pm), and
> probably more small references that grep terms didn't find.

(reads [1])

Can we treat this as an "open item" for completing the transition to 
meson for builds as part of v16?

With my personal hat on, it seems silly to wait until v17 to do this, 
and I don't see why we would want to wait. If there's limited risk in 
doing this and it'll make our builds both more stable + faster, it seems 
like we should just do it.

Thanks,

Jonathan


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