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Re: Whither windows-msvc


From: Po Lu
Subject: Re: Whither windows-msvc
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2023 22:57:10 +0800
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John Ericson <list@JohnEricson.me> writes:

> You just said it is a defunct attempt

Only inasmuch as MSVC became intractable for Emacs's own purposes.

> emacs gave up on that! If anyone else is still using `winnt` we'll
> here about it if we do a deprecation.

We must not obsolete or remove a triplet that has served us faithfully
for eons, as recently as a decade ago.

And in any case, `windows-msvc' is a no-go: there is a dash in between,
rendering the msvc an operating system identifier.  Use llvmmsvc or
something similar, if distinguishing between MSVC and LLVM is truly of
such paramount importance.


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