Re: VS 2015 support in src/tools/msvc

On 03/08/2016 08:32 AM, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 10:40 PM, Michael Paquier
> <michael.paquier@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 5:55 AM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:
>>> On 03/05/2016 01:31 PM, Michael Paquier wrote:
>>>> On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 11:34 PM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> Here is a translation into perl of the sed script, courtesy of the s2p
>>>>> incarnation of psed:
>>>>> <https://gist.github.com/adunstan/d61b1261a4b91496bdc6>
>>>>> The sed script appears to have been stable for a long time, so I don't
>>>>> think
>>>>> we need to be too concerned about possibly maintaining two versions.
>>>> That's 95% of the work already done, nice! If I finish wrapping up a
>>>> patch for this issue at least would you backpatch? It would be saner
>>>> to get rid of this dependency everywhere I think regarding compilation
>>>> with perl 5.22.
>>> Sure.
>> OK, so after some re-lecture of the script and perltidy-ing I finish
>> with the attached. How does that look?
> Attached is a new set for the support of MS 2015 + the psed issue,
> please use those ones for testing:
> - 0001 is the replacement of psed by a dedicated perl script to
> generate probes.h
> - 0002 Fix of the declaration of TIMEZONE_GLOBAL and TZNAME_GLOBAL for WIN32
> - 0003 addresses the issue with lc_codepage missing from _locale_t.
> - 0004 adds support for MS2015 in src/tools/scripts/


Thanks for doing this work.

Do we already have a hard dependency on perl for all non-Windows builds? 
I know it's been discussed but I don't recall. If so, back to what version?

The comment in the codepage patch is a bit unclear. Can you reword it a bit?

cheers

andrew