On 4/10/23 4:50 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
Magnus Hagander <mag...@hagander.net> writes:Thus, +1 on actually keeping it up and dropping it immediately as v17 opens, giving them a year of advantage. And probably updating the docs (if anybody were to read them.. but at least then we tried) stating that it's deprecated and will be removed in v17.Yeah, I think that's the only feasible answer at this point. Maybe a month or two back we could have done differently, but there's not a lot of runway now. Once we do drop src/tools/msvc from HEAD, we should make a point of reminding -packagers about it, in hopes that they'll work on the transition sooner than next May.
[personal opinion, not RMT]The last point would be my reasoning for "why not now" given deadlines are a pretty good motivator to get things done.
That said, if the plan is to do this "shortly thereafter" for v17 and it makes the transition easier, I'm all for that.
Jonathan
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