Hi,

On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 10:57:43AM +0200, Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 10:04:51AM +0200, Samuli Seppänen wrote:
> >> > While you at it, please try to explain me why we need Visual Studio 
> >> > build... :)
[..]
> > We have Visual Studio because James was afraid that mingw would stop
> > being supported, leaving us without a viable build environment.  Which
> > turns out to be not a real problem (yet), given that mingw64 seems to
> > be supported quite well.
> 
> I never knew this is the reason. And I follow this project for long time.

James said so on IRC (and there was a subsequent discussion about this
on the mailing list, when the IRC meeting notes were posted - about 1.5 
years ago).

gert
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