Re: Whither windows-msvc

2023-09-18 Thread Po Lu
John Ericson writes: > It is defunct because using Autotools with Microsoft's own compilers > basically impossible. Everything that supports Microsoft's own tools > is now using CMake or Meson for that, and bypassing GNU config and > the rest completely. LLVM however offers both GCC- and MSVC-sty

Re: Whither windows-msvc

2023-09-18 Thread John Ericson
On 9/18/23 10:57, Po Lu wrote: John Ericson writes: You just said it is a defunct attempt Only inasmuch as MSVC became intractable for Emacs's own purposes. It is defunct because using Autotools with Microsoft's own compilers basically impossible. Everything that supports Microsoft's own

Re: Whither windows-msvc

2023-09-18 Thread Po Lu
John Ericson writes: > You just said it is a defunct attempt Only inasmuch as MSVC became intractable for Emacs's own purposes. > emacs gave up on that! If anyone else is still using `winnt` we'll > here about it if we do a deprecation. We must not obsolete or remove a triplet that has served

Re: Whither windows-msvc

2023-09-18 Thread John Ericson
On 9/15/23 20:52, Po Lu wrote: John Ericson writes: This `winnt`is but more detritus from such defunct attempts. I would deprecate it so it no longer confuses people. (Deprecation I think is better than sudden removal.) It is not. Emacs used *-*-winnt4.0 to designate MSVC until support for