Re: VS 2015 support in src/tools/msvc

Petr Jelinek <petr@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> On 03/03/16 15:02, Michael Paquier wrote:
>> So, would there be interest for a patch on the perl scripts in
>> src/tools/msvc or are they considered a lost cause? Having a look at
>> the failures could be done with the cmake work, but it seems a bit
>> premature to me to look at that for the moment, and having support for
>> VS2015 with 9.5 (support for new versions of VS won a backpatch the
>> last couple of years) would be a good thing I think.

> +1, and I can help (at least review and testing if nothing else).

Yeah.  At this point, the earliest the cmake work could land is 9.7,
and TBH I do not think we are committed to landing it at all.  So it'd
behoove us to fix at least HEAD, and probably older branches too,
to work with up-to-date MSVC.
        regards, tom lane