On 4/11/23 7:54 AM, Dave Page wrote: > > > On Tue, 11 Apr 2023 at 11:58, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net > <mailto:andrew@dunslane.net>> wrote: > > For meson you just need to to "pip install meson ninja" in your > python distro and you should be good to go (they will be installed > in python's Scripts directory). Don't use chocolatey to install > meson/ninja - I ran into issues doing that. > > AFAICT meson will use whatever version of VC you have installed, > although I have only been testing with VC2019. > > OK, that sounds easy enough then (famous last words!)
[RMT hat]
Dave -- does this mean you see a way forward on moving the Windows builds over to use Meson instead of MSVC?
I can see a way forward, yes.
Do you think we'll have enough info by end of this week to make a decision on whether we can drop MSVC in v16?
There's no way I can test anything this week - I'm on leave for most of it and AFK.
But, my point was more that there are almost certainly more projects using the MSVC build system than the EDB installers; pgAdmin being just one example.
