On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 11:23 PM, Dangling Pointer <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > In my understanding, the ratio between the mere consumers of git on Windows > vs. people who compile git for Windows is 100,000 : 1. If there is a breaking > change in the workflow of the latter set, who use Visual Studio to build git > from source, I assume that is doable given a good reason, hence this post. > > With VS 2015, C99 support is "finally" added with some C11 features as well. > See this blog: > http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2015/06/19/c-11-14-17-features-in-vs-2015-rtm.aspx. > One of the edition of new VS is Community edition, which is like > professional edition but is free (also much superior than Express edition) > and meant for open source projects. VS2015 also has the ability to target > compiler for Wind-XP. >
I think the big issue is whether it has support for the various unix interfaces and unix shell commands we use. MinGW/MSYS comes with support for the unix interface, which I don't believe is that actually supported via MSYS and I don't know if VS2015 is supported? I don't think it's due to the C99 but due to need of posix interface which is not normally (fully) provided by Windows. Regards, Jake -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
