On 09/24/2018 11:12 AM, Matthias Seidel wrote: > [...] Support has ended and MS has pulled it from their server. > [...]This is a major problem now for developers who want to > set up a new building machine.[...]
Reliance on ancient/deprecated toolchain from a vendor -- who is known for removing old versions of unsupported tools -- seems to be a major problem. Have you looked at the Windows dev VM that they've started in recent months? https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/virtual-machines It is a VM with recent builds of OS + SDK + WDK + VisualStudio installed. It is available in VirtualBox and VMware formats, not just Hyper-V. Having the MS tools preinstalled may save time to AOO contributors. It is a large download, about 16gig, perhaps too big for some contributors to easily download?? The VM is trialware, expires in a few months, so you have to download a new VM ever few months. I wonder how long Microsoft will decide to support this dev VM? Maybe it is too soon to start relying on it? :-( If the goal is to only to use ancient, deprecated tools, not just the latest available binaries from the vendor, then this VM won't help. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
