Il 14.03.2012 11:13, Alon Bar-Lev ha scritto: > On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 11:10 AM, David Sommerseth > <openvpn.l...@topphemmelig.net> wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 14/03/12 09:33, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: >>> As the mingw build is the formal build, there is no reason to keep >>> supporting old visual studio configurations. >> That's debatable. James Yonan is using MSVC for the OpenVPN AS client, >> and has indicated that he wanted that. I don't know much more than this, >> but it might be related to his concerns about the old mingw32 tool chain >> not being too well maintained. I know that's not an issue with the >> mingw64 stuff. >> >> However, currently the official tool chain is MSVC for Windows builds. >> All other platforms uses the autotools toolchain. We can surely discuss >> if this is the right discussion, but that's a discussion where James will >> have the final word. >> >> - From my perspective, the less toolchains we need to care about, the >> better. But we are not in a position where we can overrule James' >> decisions, especially not without involving him in the discussion. > So please involve. > Again, I did not wrote to remove MSVC, just to support 2010 and above. > > Alon. I'll try to involve him in this week's or next week's IRC meeting :).
Personally, I got the feeling that the Python-based MSVC buildsystem he started writing (and which I finished) was a reaction to the general crappiness of OpenVPN Windows buildsystem(s). And that should not be an argument after the new "generic" buildsystem is merged. -- Samuli Seppänen Community Manager OpenVPN Technologies, Inc irc freenode net: mattock
