00:48 <JordanBrown1> kintel, teepee, InPhase: my bet is that there *are* people depending on the ability to create multiple disjoint polygons in a single call. It's an obvious thing to do if you want to do the "built it in 2D and then extrude" thing.

01:55 <Parth> hello

03:35 <kintel> JordanBrown Yeah, yet another reminder that API design is hard. Still pondering on how to fix it..

09:15 <gbruno> [github] roel-v opened issue #4976 (Reboot attempt at working MSVC build) https://github.com/openscad/openscad/issues/4976

09:56 <rv> Hello all, I'm attempting to revive the earlier efforts at getting a working MSVC openscad build, using vcpkg. I have a bare bones version working. I was told to "advertise" here to call upon anyone interested in this topic to try it out and give feedback. I've opened an issue here: https://github.com/openscad/openscad/issues/4976 with details . Thanks!

09:57 <teepee> nice, ideally we can find a way of automating the build. last time I tried it failed due to time limitations of the windows build environment of 1h

10:03 <rv> Ah that's good to know there is a time limit; building the dependencies can indeed take quite some time.

10:07 <teepee> that was AppVeyor at the time, no idea if they changed meanwhile or if maybe some other place, like github actions might be a bettere option

10:14 <Scopeuk> it's been a while since I used vcpkg but if memory serves it does stash to disk as it goes, it might be possible to force through a full build with a cache enabled and multiple runs (obviously better to just do it in one hit on a compliant enviroment)

11:30 <gbruno> [github] roel-v edited issue #4976 (Reboot attempt at working MSVC build) https://github.com/openscad/openscad/issues/4976

12:40 <gbruno> [github] DeepHorizons opened issue #4977 (Ability to set solid name) https://github.com/openscad/openscad/issues/4977

12:57 <gbruno> [github] kintel edited issue #4976 (Reboot attempt at working MSVC build) https://github.com/openscad/openscad/issues/4976

12:58 <gbruno> [github] kintel edited issue #4976 (Reboot attempt at working MSVC build) https://github.com/openscad/openscad/issues/4976

14:51 <gbruno> [github] roel-v edited issue #4976 (Reboot attempt at working MSVC build) https://github.com/openscad/openscad/issues/4976

14:51 <gbruno> [github] roel-v edited issue #4976 (Reboot attempt at working MSVC build) https://github.com/openscad/openscad/issues/4976

14:51 <gbruno> [github] roel-v edited issue #4976 (Reboot attempt at working MSVC build) https://github.com/openscad/openscad/issues/4976

14:59 <gbruno> [github] roel-v edited issue #4976 (Reboot attempt at working MSVC build) https://github.com/openscad/openscad/issues/4976

20:13 <kintel> rv I wonder how/if vcpkg works together with GitHub Packages.

20:14 <kintel> ..alternatively GitHub Actions caches, but caches are annoying since we need a mechanism for invalidating them

20:14 <kintel> ..plus limited lifetime I think

20:15 <kintel> On other platforms we have various solutions. Mostly binary packages, or using our own pre-built docker images with installed dependencies.

20:32 <peeps[work]> i think the docker approach might be necessary for vcpkg on CI

20:39 <kintel> Docker on Windows is pretty much unknown territory for me, but if we can build images on the existing CI nodes without running into timeout issues, it might work..

21:19 <teepee> AppVeyor seems to have a cache of max 1gb

21:21 <teepee> I'm still not too fond of the idea to have too much on github, but that seems to be an easier option

21:29 <teepee> cirrus-ci has windows for open source projects too, but I can't find limitations yet (other than cpu)