Re: Building psqlODBC installers

On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 4:07 PM, Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> On 06/13/2014 08:33 PM, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>
>> To be honest, I would also like to remove the MSBuild stuff that
>> Inoue-san did last summer. I prefer the nmake infrastructure, and don't
>> find it useful myself. But I know you spent a lot of effort on writing
>> that stuff... Do you use it actively?
>
> Personally, I just found it immensely useful.
>
> It also properly detects the SDK, which is nice.
>
> I don't really see the appeal of nmake. Why use it? Pg proper got rid of
> it (for good reasons, IMO) and it's generally pretty deprecated for MS
> tools.
>
> I don't pretend that MSBuild is the most beautiful thing around (more
> like the bastard child of CMake and Ant) but it does fit in with the
> tooling really well, plays well with MSVC, and is well supported.

I haven't worked on ODBC in a long while, but from a higher level
perspective of someone who builds and packages multi-platform software
for a living, I whole heartedly agree that MSBuild should be used in
place of nmake, for essentially the same reasons to those Craig give.

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