bakefile support of configure.py

[boricm]

Hi randombit,

I noticed that you removed the bakefile support from configure.py in commit SHA-1: 2915ca3660969c0c995e32de2964f7a935ac80b6. My colleagues and me use this on a daily basis to generate our Visual Studio 2019 solutions of Botan. Is there any chance you could add the bakefile support again? :-) Or do you know an alternative way to generate a Visual Studio solution of Botan with similar effort?

Thanks for your help! Michael

[randombit]

Apologies. I had been under the impression this was unused/unusable because bakefile (or so I thought) only supported up to Visual C++ 2013 which is no longer supported in 3.x in any case.

It might be ok to just revert that commit. I am not a huge fan of supporting these alternate build systems (bakefile, cmake) simply because they are not tested by me or CI at all and if someone has problems I am not in a situation to assist.

[boricm]

Thanks for your support! Should I create a pull request with the revertion?

[randombit]

Closing as there has been no activity on this issue, but if bakefile support is still desired (and it actually can be used to build with modern versions of VC) then fine to bring it back.