[geos-devel] *.vc files

[Paul Ramsey]

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On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 12:25 PM Paul Ramsey <pramsey at cleverelephant.ca> wrote:
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> Here's a PR for comment
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> https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/geos/geos/pulls/60
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> On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 12:22 PM Regina Obe <lr at pcorp.us> wrote:
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>> +1
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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 point.
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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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>> P
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