D17908: kdevelop-msvc.bat finds VS-2017 based on a registry key on Windows.

Petros Siligkounas <noreply-Buy57tU0AsCGxO/ty/[email protected]> Fri, 5 Jun 2020 17:57:44 +0000

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Petross404 added a comment.


  In D17908#492410 <https://phabricator.kde.org/D17908#492410>, @sredman wrote:
  
  > Actually, a pleasant surprise for today is that this whole mess of registry keys and environment variables is mostly unnecessary as of VS 2017, since Microsoft provides a tool which does all the locating work for us: https://github.com/microsoft/vswhere
  
  
  Do we want to ship this with KDevelop? So that the .bat script can rely on this utility?

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