[geos-devel] *.vc files

[Paul Ramsey]

Here's a PR for comment

https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/geos/geos/pulls/60


On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 12:22 PM Regina Obe <lr at pcorp.us> wrote:

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> Wipe out all the VC build files.  I think we said in 3.8 we would
> officially no longer support VS and windows users should use cmake.
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> There are way too many versions of VS to keep track of. Even a windows
> user is not going to test all permutations and each always seems to require
> a slightly different diet.
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> You'll have to kill the appveyor testing of NMake etc. though.  I think
> both dan and I have appveyor jobs things since I get alerted when it breaks.
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> But you can take those out of the appveyor testing suite.
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> *From:* geos-devel [mailto:geos-devel-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] *On Behalf
> Of *Paul Ramsey
> *Sent:* Thursday, December 20, 2018 2:51 PM
> *To:* GEOS Development List <geos-devel at lists.osgeo.org>
> *Subject:* [geos-devel] *.vc files
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> Are the *.vc files still maintained at all? I'm guessing not. Can we
> expect VC builds to use cmake now?
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> I'm attempting to integrate all version information to one place for all
> builds, but the manual maintenance of the *.vc files remains a sticking
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> If they are dead I'd like to remove them from master.
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> I'm also willing to remove them from 3.7 if there's a desire to backport
> one-point-of-truth versioning to that branch.
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