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Re: time to remove Visual Studio project files?

From: Tomalak Geret'kal via curl-library <curl-library_at_cool.haxx.se>
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2020 17:12:07 +0000

On 14/12/2020 08:25, Daniel Stenberg via curl-library wrote:
> On Sat, 5 Sep 2020, Daniel Stenberg via curl-library wrote:
>
>> I'd like to get a better feel for the need to ship the
>> visual studio project files we currently host in the
>> project/ directory.
>
> We're now three months later and I *still* want to do
> this. The PR is here:
>
>   https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/5920
>
> I understand that there will be users that have to switch
> build method, but apart from a minor inconvenience in
> figuring out how to do that, is there anything else or
> worse that we risk if we proceed and merge this PR?
>
To be honest, this is more than a minor inconvenience where
libcurl is currently integrated into a broader Visual Studio
project. It adds dependencies at the very least, and
potentially makes project builds more complicated forever.

What's the driving force behind dropping VS?

Cheers

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Received on 2020-12-14