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
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
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
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
