Alon, Thank you very much for the very quick response, sooner or later I'll let you know how it goes.
Kind Regards, Athanasios On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 5:09 PM, Athanasios Douitsis <aduit...@gmail.com>wrote: > Oh crap....I've just uninstalled VC2010 from my builder :) :) :) > > > 2012/3/14 Alon Bar-Lev <alon.bar...@gmail.com> > >> Thanks. >> >> In the mean time I upgraded the VC support for 2010 (and above? >> hopefully). >> >> Athanasios, you may try again. >> >> Alon. >> >> 2012/3/14 Samuli Seppänen <sam...@openvpn.net> >> > >> > 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 >> > >> > > > > -- > Athanasios Douitsis > > > > -- Athanasios Douitsis
