Re: VS 2026 support on old branches

On Tue, Jul 7, 2026 at 4:30 PM Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> wrote:

>
> Greetings,
>
> Peter E pinged me recently about the need to upgrade drongo because he was
> planning to commit some stuff that would break on VS 2019. I chose to
> update it to VS2026, and this promptly broke on the old branches. I've
> hacked its config for now to use the older setup for 14 and 15, but that's
> not very principled - and buildfarm members are supposed to use the same
> compiler for all branches. If anyone wants to set up a buildfarm animal now
> they will have to choose between using an older compiler (VS2022) and not
> supporting all the live branches. So here's a patch (which I have tested)
> that adds support for VS2026 on those old branches, pretty much in line
> with what we've done before. With any luck, Microsoft won't come out with
> another release until after the date our release 15 goes EOL, at which
> point we will be done with this kabuki dance.
>
>
>

In the absence of comment, I'm intending to apply this next week.

cheers

andrew