Re: [Cvs-dev] (no subject)

[Jim Hyslop]

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Dennis Jones wrote:
> There was some discussion back in August about whether or not CVS would
> continue to be buildable by MSVC5, and when I mentioned that I had MSVC6
> available and could install it along with MSVC5 for building CVS, Derek
> replied with, "It would be useful, as long as the CVS-Windows folks are
> willing to continue supporting both platforms."  But since MSVC5 had been
> sufficient to build CVS (until about two weeks ago), I simply put off the
> upgrade to version 6.

I've taken up the mantle of MSVC support. Previously, Conrad Pino had
been doing it, and IIRC he was using MSVC5. I don't have MSVC5 (I could
possibly dig up a copy somewhere).

> Well, it now seems that either the CVS-Windows folks are no longer willing
> to support MSVC5 (which really isn't all that surprising), or simply cannot
> support it due to new requirements or features added to CVS since June 14
> (which was the last successful build of TRUNK).
It's a lot easier to support using MSVC6. I needed to fix a problem
converting a supplied path into canonical form, and I could either
implement my own function, or call the Windows shell api function
PathCanonicalize(), which was added when IE4 was released (this means,
by the way, that anyone who is running an ancient installation of
Windows 9x with IE3 or earlier will not be able to run cvs - I assume
that is not likely to be much of a concern).

> If MSVC6 is now required to build CVS, I will be happy to install it.
> However, I am expecting to replace that particular machine (where the
> nightly build executes) with something a little newer/faster in a week or so
> (hopefully sooner, I just don't know when it will be available).  Therefore,
> if y'all can hang out and be patient for just a little while longer, I
> should have CVS building with MSVC6 soon.

OK by me.

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