Re: allow running parts of src/tools/msvc/ under not Windows

Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> On 2020-02-13 16:36, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Yeah, I'm wondering exactly how this helps.  IME the typical sort of
>> breakage is "the MSVC build doesn't know that file X needs to be
>> included when building Y".  It seems like just building the project
>> files will teach one nothing about that type of omission.

> The main benefit is that if you make "blind" edits in the Perl files, 
> you can verify them easily, first by seeing that the Perl code runs, 
> second, depending on the circumstances, by diffing the created project 
> files.  Another is that if you do some nontrivial surgery in makefiles, 
> you can check whether the Perl code can still process them.  So the 
> benefit is mainly that you can iterate faster when working on build 
> system related things.  You still need to do a full test on Windows at 
> the conclusion, but then hopefully with a better chance of success.

I see.  No objection then.

            regards, tom lane