Re: When to drop src/tools/msvc support

From: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, "Jonathan S(dot) Katz" <jkatz(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
Subject: Re: When to drop src/tools/msvc support
Date: 2023-04-10 23:52:57
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On Mon, Apr 10, 2023 at 03:32:19PM -0700, Andres Freund wrote:
> On IM Thomas made some point about CI - I wonder if we should add building 16
> with src/tools/msvc as an optional CI task? We can't enable it by default
> (yet), because we'd not have enough resources to also run that for cfbot. Once
> 16 forked, we then could set to run automatically in the 16 branch, as cfbot
> won't run those.

Getting a CI job able to do some validation for MSVC would be indeed
nice. What's the plan in the buildfarm with this coverage? Would all
the animals switch to meson (Chocolatey + StrawberryPerl, I assume)
for the job or will there still be some coverage with MSVC for v16
there?
--
Michael

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