Re: Whither windows-msvc

[John Ericson]

On 9/15/23 20:52, Po Lu wrote:

> John Ericson <list@JohnEricson.me> writes:
>
> > This `winnt`is but more detritus from such defunct attempts. I would
> > deprecate it so it no longer confuses people. (Deprecation I think is
> > better than sudden removal.)
> It is not.  Emacs used *-*-winnt4.0 to designate MSVC until support for
> the MSVC build was removed as a whole, some time in the 2010s.

You just said it is a defunct attempt --- emacs gave up on that! If 
anyone else is still using `winnt` we'll here about it if we do a 
deprecation.