jonwil

Releasing it as a separate branch is the answer for sure. People who want to ship it can grab that branch and get a set of binaries out of it...

Are there any cases of abi-breaking changes that need to be made to vcruntime, vcstartup. concrt or other closed modules or any cases where abi-breaking changes require closed modules to...

I thought VS 2019 dropped XP support (or are there enough users out there that still need XP support that bringing it back to VS 2019 is necessary?)

I forgot that the 2019 dlls are also the dlls for versions of VS where the XP targeting support is still actively supported.

I seem to recall statements in the past that the next release of VS after VS 2019 was going to be an ABI breaking release. What happened to that?

I verified this against original and the code we have right now is correct to the original (i.e. the subobj->Release_Ref(); line)