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:
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> > >> 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
> >
>



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Athanasios Douitsis

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