Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
> Thus, +1 on actually keeping it up and dropping it immediately as v17
> opens, giving them a year of advantage. And probably updating the docs
> (if anybody were to read them.. but at least then we tried) stating
> that it's deprecated and will be removed in v17.
Yeah, I think that's the only feasible answer at this point.
Maybe a month or two back we could have done differently,
but there's not a lot of runway now.
Once we do drop src/tools/msvc from HEAD, we should make a point
of reminding -packagers about it, in hopes that they'll work on
the transition sooner than next May.
regards, tom lane