Joseph Brill

I apologize in advance as I am time limited for the rest of the day today and tomorrow morning. Notes to self while it is still fresh that a bug...

The issue with MSVC 6.0 mentioned above is a false negative: - The initial code to find installed vcs (get_installed_vcs) fails to find msvc 6.0 due to the case sensitive...

I have attached a second prototype of specific version support. This is pre-alpha quality lacking adequate testing, documentation and error checking. It may very well only work on my computer....

Once the 2019 build tools were actually installed, a problem with identifying "synthetic" versions (e.g., Enterprise, Professional, Community, BuildTools) when there are multiple versions installed was revealed. The example configurations...

I have a "working" prototype version of *vc.py* that unifies both #3265 and #3664. The prototype is not production ready but does illustrate that both #3265 and #3664 can be...

For posterity. It has been deemed that *this issue is not a bug and is the preferred behavior based* on the response in https://github.com/SCons/scons/pull/3717#issuecomment-670822825: > One of the first principles...

@bdbaddog I apologize if you believe that I'm overreacting. It is impossible to tell how much thought you may have put into supporting this issue and specific versions in general...

@bdbaddog I understand completely. That is why actual solutions were provided that were worked on full time until completion. To be clear, I am not in need of any fixes,...

> How to reproduce your issue? Please include a small self contained reproducer. Likely a SConstruct should do for most issues: Download the mongodb source code from offical website. Download...

> So this is known issue, resolved by your PR? (was thinking that's the case) Since the new PR is applied after selection of msvc installation, it would have to...