On 21/07/15 20:25, Junio C Hamano wrote: > "Philip Oakley" <philipoakley@xxxxxxx> writes: > >> ... Ideally, if part of this >> mainstream Git, it would get picked up automatically by them >> (rather than being local 'fixes' endlessly carried forward). > > Actually, that is not "ideal", but what I want to avoid. > > As I do not do Windows, it simply is wrong for me to apply changes > that are very likely to affect Windows folks without seeing their > support first, which they may end up having to revert on their end > and endlessly carry that revert forward. That is why I very much > prefer to see changes get there first and then forwarded in my > direction once they are happy with them. > >> There has been no activity here on the 'create a visual studio project' >> aspects in the last few years. Any changes listed in the logs relate to >> ensuring that the MSVC compiler will run as part of a regular Makefile >> run (IIUC). The last significant commit was 74cf9bd (engine.pl: Fix a >> recent breakage of the buildsystem generator, 2010-01-22) Ramsay Jones, >> so that's five and a half years. > > I think Ramsay is still around on the list; I do not know if he > still does Windows, though. [Sorry for not noticing this sooner, but I'm currently moving home (among other things) and, as a result, I have not been able to devote much time to the list ... (or anything else ;-) ] I don't do much with MinGW or MSVC these days (I do still try to keep cygwin running - it's currently not in good shape). My MSVC installation is somewhat old (2008 I believe) and confined to my old 32-bit laptop (which doesn't get booted up too often now). I had a quick squint at the patches and, at first glance, they looked quite reasonable to me, but I have not tested them. I can't promise to test them anytime soon (and my MSVC may be too old for these patches?). Sorry! :( [If I find some time soon, I will give them a try and let you know.] ATB, Ramsay Jones -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html