Re: When to drop src/tools/msvc support

From: "Jonathan S(dot) Katz" <jkatz(at)postgresql(dot)org>
To: Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: When to drop src/tools/msvc support
Date: 2023-04-11 12:52:08
Message-ID: cd8ff982-1c34-d2dc-0a5c-85e5db7518c9@postgresql.org
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On 4/11/23 7:54 AM, Dave Page wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, 11 Apr 2023 at 11:58, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net
> <mailto:andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>> wrote:
>
> For meson you just need to to "pip install meson ninja" in your
> python distro and you should be good to go (they will be installed
> in python's Scripts directory). Don't use chocolatey to install
> meson/ninja - I ran into issues doing that.
>
> AFAICT meson will use whatever version of VC you have installed,
> although I have only been testing with VC2019.
>
> OK, that sounds easy enough then (famous last words!)

[RMT hat]

Dave -- does this mean you see a way forward on moving the Windows
builds over to use Meson instead of MSVC?

Do you think we'll have enough info by end of this week to make a
decision on whether we can drop MSVC in v16?

Thanks,

Jonathan

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