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.
