Re: [PATCH 1/5] Makefile: drop builtins from MSVC pdb list

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] Makefile: drop builtins from MSVC pdb list
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2020 11:08:28 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200813150828.GA891963@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200813150428.GA2244@syl.lan>

On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 11:04:28AM -0400, Taylor Blau wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 10:57:19AM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
> > Over the years some more programs have become builtins, but nobody
> > updated this MSVC-specific section of the file (which specifically says
> > that it should not include builtins). Let's bring it up to date.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
> > ---
> > Given that nobody has mentioned this, it makes me wonder if anybody is
> > even using this part of the Makefile at all these days. Or maybe having
> > extra lines here isn't a problem (though it's also missing some entries,
> > like one for git-bugreport).
> 
> If having extra entries didn't cause a problem, I would suspect that it
> was just that. But that missing entries *also* doesn't cause a problem,
> I'd suspect that this section of the Makefile just isn't being used.
> 
> Of course, I'm not using it since I'm not on Windows, but maybe dscho or
> Stolee would know if there are legitimate uses. Of course, if there
> aren't, I'm favor of getting rid of this section entirely.

I cc'd Jeff Hostetler, who added it. :)

I'm also pretty not-knowledgeable about Windows, but I think that
anybody using MSVC would do so through Visual Studio these days. And
that's being covered with recent cmake stuff. Or maybe I'm just
clueless. We'll see.

-Peff