Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: package_full_revision.txt and derived files

[Jon Bright]

graydon hoare wrote:
>
> is not terribly strong. monotone is already difficult to build on 
> windows, 

Hence I didn't think making it more dependency-rich/difficult an 
especially good idea - though given the comparitively small number of 
Windows users who'll be wanting to produce their own builds, it's 
perhaps not a big deal.

> and I think much of that difficulty stems from the inability to 
> use msvc, the "normal" toolchain windows users would want to use. I 
> would say that installing msys+mingw is more work, on windows, than 
> installing python.

Indeed.

> scons does, in its favour, know how to use msvc.

So does MS's version of make :-)  The main problem with MSVC, I would 
imagine, is less one of compatibility with build tools (though clearly, 
without mingw, one's not going to get autoconf/automake working - the 
OpenSSL people solve this by having a static version of the necessary 
files for Windows).  The bigger issue is likely to be 
language/library-level platform dependencies.

That said, I would quite like to have an MSVC port.  If using scons 
makes it easier to get to the stage of sorting out the language/library 
issues instead of spending time sorting out the building issues, that's 
less time I'd need to put into getting it to build with MSVC, making it 
more likely I'll find the needed time... (Anybody else who's already 
planning on this, please shout!)

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