Re: When to drop src/tools/msvc support

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?

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?

Thanks,

Jonathan