Visual Studio Thrift Projects

[Jim King <Ji...@simplivity.com>]

Hi folks, if you are interested in Windows builds of thrift, this might be interesting to you.
We have a class of defects over time where the visual studio "canned" solution files are stale and don't work.
These files don't get used in our CI builds so there's nothing to keep them from rotting.

I have proposed a solution under https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-3965 which is to
get rid of the "canned" (i.e. checked-in) solution files and instead provide detailed instructions
for folks to generate solutions with CMake.  CMake can generate solutions for many different
MSVC versions and it will never produce an invalid solution because we use CMake in our
CI environment.

This will solve a class of windows issues that continue to show up in Jira.  I provided some
guidance to some folks around how to do this in
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-3832 to help them get around the issue
they were having as a short example.

Thoughts?
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