"Philip Oakley" [off-list ref] writes:
... Ideally, if part of this
mainstream Git, it would get picked up automatically by them
(rather than being local 'fixes' endlessly carried forward).
Actually, that is not "ideal", but what I want to avoid.
As I do not do Windows, it simply is wrong for me to apply changes
that are very likely to affect Windows folks without seeing their
support first, which they may end up having to revert on their end
and endlessly carry that revert forward. That is why I very much
prefer to see changes get there first and then forwarded in my
direction once they are happy with them.
There has been no activity here on the 'create a visual studio project'
aspects in the last few years. Any changes listed in the logs relate to
ensuring that the MSVC compiler will run as part of a regular Makefile
run (IIUC). The last significant commit was 74cf9bd (engine.pl: Fix a
recent breakage of the buildsystem generator, 2010-01-22) Ramsay Jones,
so that's five and a half years.
I think Ramsay is still around on the list; I do not know if he
still does Windows, though.
On 21/07/15 20:25, Junio C Hamano wrote:
"Philip Oakley" [off-list ref] writes:
quoted
... Ideally, if part of this
mainstream Git, it would get picked up automatically by them
(rather than being local 'fixes' endlessly carried forward).
Actually, that is not "ideal", but what I want to avoid.
As I do not do Windows, it simply is wrong for me to apply changes
that are very likely to affect Windows folks without seeing their
support first, which they may end up having to revert on their end
and endlessly carry that revert forward. That is why I very much
prefer to see changes get there first and then forwarded in my
direction once they are happy with them.
quoted
There has been no activity here on the 'create a visual studio project'
aspects in the last few years. Any changes listed in the logs relate to
ensuring that the MSVC compiler will run as part of a regular Makefile
run (IIUC). The last significant commit was 74cf9bd (engine.pl: Fix a
recent breakage of the buildsystem generator, 2010-01-22) Ramsay Jones,
so that's five and a half years.
I think Ramsay is still around on the list; I do not know if he
still does Windows, though.
[Sorry for not noticing this sooner, but I'm currently moving home
(among other things) and, as a result, I have not been able to
devote much time to the list ... (or anything else ;-) ]
I don't do much with MinGW or MSVC these days (I do still try to
keep cygwin running - it's currently not in good shape). My MSVC
installation is somewhat old (2008 I believe) and confined to my
old 32-bit laptop (which doesn't get booted up too often now).
I had a quick squint at the patches and, at first glance, they
looked quite reasonable to me, but I have not tested them. I can't
promise to test them anytime soon (and my MSVC may be too old for
these patches?). Sorry! :(
[If I find some time soon, I will give them a try and let you know.]
ATB,
Ramsay Jones