Re: Windows "STABLE" branches on squid-cache.org

Hi Alex,

At 19:07 07/01/2008, Alex Rousskov wrote:
>On Wed, 2007-12-26 at 23:18 +0100, Guido Serassio wrote:
>
> > As some Squid developer already know, there is a Squid 2.6 "STABLE
> > Windows" branch in the squid-cache.org CVS repository, SQUID_NT_2_6,
> > based on SQUID_2_6.
> > This allow to easily maintain the native Windows port based on MS
> > Visual Studio from which the distribution binaries are compiled
> > (MinGW and Cygwin support are already in the baseline code).
>
>Would you prefer to add Visual Studio support to the baseline code
>instead of creating a Squid3 branch for Visual Studio releases? Is it a
>matter of adding and maintaining project/solution files?

The Windows "STABLE" branches are used to generate the native
binaries for Windows of Squid using Microsoft Visual Studio. A
dedicated STABLE branch is needed to warrant source code stability
and isolation/protection.
The support of Visual Studio environment is a bit problematic for some reasons:
- It lacks the support for configure, so there is a statically (and
manually) generated autoconf.h
- The build process is not based on the standard Makefiles
- Many build steps are done using dedicated .cmd files

It think that a similar support cannot be called "STABLE" like the
support for the other platforms, while the support for MSYS+MinGW is
really at STABLE level.

Regards

Guido

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Received on Mon Jan 07 2008 - 12:56:35 MST