On Wed, Jul 15, 2026 at 04:48:11PM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 7, 2026 at 4:30 PM Andrew Dunstan <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Peter E pinged me recently about the need to upgrade drongo because he was
>> planning to commit some stuff that would break on VS 2019. I chose to
>> update it to VS2026, and this promptly broke on the old branches. I've
>> hacked its config for now to use the older setup for 14 and 15, but that's
>> not very principled - and buildfarm members are supposed to use the same
>> compiler for all branches. If anyone wants to set up a buildfarm animal now
>> they will have to choose between using an older compiler (VS2022) and not
>> supporting all the live branches. So here's a patch (which I have tested)
>> that adds support for VS2026 on those old branches, pretty much in line
>> with what we've done before. With any luck, Microsoft won't come out with
>> another release until after the date our release 15 goes EOL, at which
>> point we will be done with this kabuki dance.
> 
> In the absence of comment, I'm intending to apply this next week.

Looking at the patch, I am amazed by its simplicity.  Not requiring
more tricks around locale handling is nice to see.  Thanks for doing
that.
--
Michael

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