Re: [boost] [VS2017][release] vswhere.exe

Subject: Re: [boost] [VS2017][release] vswhere.exe
From: Mateusz Loskot (mateusz_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-03-28 18:18:22

On 28 March 2017 at 16:34, Rene Rivera via Boost <boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 8:41 AM, Mateusz Loskot via Boost <boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>>
>> This is regarding issues with locating VS 2017 toolset(s).
>> From CMake ml, I learned about vswhere utility being developed by Microsoft
>>
>> https://github.com/Microsoft/vswhere
>>
>> vswhere.exe (390 KB) is downloadable from
>>
>> https://github.com/Microsoft/vswhere/releases
>
>
> Yes, we are ware of that utility. As we advocated (or rather more like
> pestered) MS to write it.

I see. I couldn't fish anything about from the list archives.

> Unfortunately it didn't make it into the release itself.
> And at least because of license issues I'm not comfortable
> including it in the Boost tree, or install. Once Microsoft includes it as
> part of a VS release and installs it so that it is accessible in the PATH
> we will use it.

Makes sense.

Thanks,
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Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net