Hi Daniel, On Tue, 10 Nov 2020, Daniel Gurney wrote: > On 10/11/2020 16:04, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > Point in reference: > > you can build Linux applications in Visual Studio like _right now_ [*1*]. > > > > Ciao, > > Dscho > > > > Footnote *1*: It currently uses GCC, but who says it always will? > > https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/linux/cmake-linux-project > > When it comes to building C++ code MSVC uses Microsoft's C++ Standard Library, > and one of its stated non-goals[1] is being ported to other systems. I assume > the same applies for their C library. Therefore to me a scenario where a > future version of MSVC would build non-Windows code, let alone for a > big-endian architecture, seems extremely unlikely. Well, we know for a fact that at least XBox is a big-endian system and ther are rumors out there that Visual Studio _might_ be used to build software for that system. Of course, I am not suggesting that we should build Git for XBox. But it seems dangerous to me to make too many assumptions. > That said, I understand your overall point of view perfectly, and I'm fine > with either one of my patches being applied since the end result today is the > same. As a maintainer, I am less concerned about the "result today" than I am about keeping things easy and effortless to maintain. One of your patches accomplishes that. The other one made it into `next`: https://github.com/git/git/commit/91a67b86f77 Ciao, Dscho
