On 04/11/2021 09:46, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: >> he entire point of the CMake configuration is to allow developers on >> Windows to use the tools they are used to, to build Git. And believe it or >> not, GNU make is not one of those tools! I know. Very hard to believe. :-) > I believe that, the question is why it isn't a better trade-off to just > ask those users to install that software. Our Windows CI is doing it > on-the-fly, so clearly it's not that hard to do it. Just to say that, while it is real easy to download and install the Git-for-Windows SDK (https://gitforwindows.org/#download-sdk), for most (Windows) users it's a foreign land, with few friends who understand what things like `gdb` are all about. It's all doable, but the learning curve can be hard. The CI doesn't need a learning curve ;-) Being able to fire up a well 'trusted' tool like Visual Studio to investigate the code does help contributors understand the code. -- Philip
