Re: meson "experimental"?

On Tue, 4 Jun 2024 at 16:25, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> On Wed, May 29, 2024 at 2:41 AM Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org>
> wrote:
> > "Alternatively, PostgreSQL can be built using Meson. This is the only
> > option for building PostgreSQL in Windows using Visual Something[*].
> > For other platforms, using Meson is currently experimental."
>
> Is it, though? I feel like we're beyond the experimental stage now.
>

I clearly missed the discussion in which it was decided to remove the old
MSVC++ support from the tree (and am disappointed about that as I would
have objected loudly). Having recently started testing Meson on Windows
when I realised that change had been made, and having to update builds for
pgAdmin and the Windows installers, I think it's clear it's far more
experimental on that platform than it is on Linux at least.

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