RE: time to remove Visual Studio project files?

On Sat, 5 Sep 2020, Rod Widdowson via curl-library wrote:

> I'd be *very* reluctant to see the NMAKE files go, but we have never used
> the vcxproj files. As I recall, I couldn't get over the apparent impedance
> mismatch between the multiple parameterization options and the configuration
> types.

Thanks, but I have no intentions of removing the nnake files. I believe those
are in a rather good shape, are frequently used and the documentation for them
is decent. They are makefiles, easy to understand and maintain even for us who
don't actually ever use them.

I was hoping that building curl on windows could be narrowed down to primarily
be using these:

  - nmake for building with visual studio (winbuild/)
  - configure for msys/mingw style builds
  - cmake for the rest
  - (mingw makefiles for the adventureous, but they remain mostly undocumented)

The VS project files are different. They are custom XML files for a
proprietary product that are (next to) impossible for anyone without that tool
to verify and fix. And cmake can generate such files.

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