VS 17.14

[h-vetinari]

It seems the images with VS 17.14 are starting to be rolled out, and many windows jobs failing because of it

(%BUILD_PREFIX%) C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise>if "14.44" LSS "14.43" (
 
 CALL "VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvars64.bat" -vcvars_ver=14.44 10.0.26100.0 
)  else (CALL "VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvars64.bat" -vcvars_ver=14.43 10.0.26100.0 ) 
**********************************************************************
** Visual Studio 2022 Developer Command Prompt v17.14.5
** Copyright (c) 2025 Microsoft Corporation
**********************************************************************
[ERROR:vcvars.bat] Toolset directory for version '14.43' was not found.
[ERROR:VsDevCmd.bat] *** VsDevCmd.bat encountered errors. Environment may be incomplete and/or incorrect. ***
[ERROR:VsDevCmd.bat] In an uninitialized command prompt, please 'set VSCMD_DEBUG=[value]' and then re-run
[ERROR:VsDevCmd.bat] vsdevcmd.bat [args] for additional details.
[ERROR:VsDevCmd.bat] Where [value] is:
[ERROR:VsDevCmd.bat]    1 : basic debug logging
[ERROR:VsDevCmd.bat]    2 : detailed debug logging
[ERROR:VsDevCmd.bat]    3 : trace level logging. Redirection of output to a file when using this level is recommended.
[ERROR:VsDevCmd.bat] Example: set VSCMD_DEBUG=3
[ERROR:VsDevCmd.bat]          vsdevcmd.bat > vsdevcmd.trace.txt 2>&1

Closes #98

[conda-forge-admin]

Hi! This is the friendly automated conda-forge-linting service.

I just wanted to let you know that I linted all conda-recipes in your PR (recipe/meta.yaml) and found it was in an excellent condition.

I do have some suggestions for making it better though...

For recipe/meta.yaml:

• ℹ️ The recipe is not parsable by parser conda-souschef (grayskull). This parser is not currently used by conda-forge, but may be in the future. We are collecting information to see which recipes are compatible with grayskull.
• ℹ️ The recipe is not parsable by parser conda-recipe-manager. The recipe can only be automatically migrated to the new v1 format if it is parseable by conda-recipe-manager.

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[h-vetinari]

@conda-forge/vc, VS 17.14 has started rolling out in the runner-images. Please review at your earliest convenience.

I raised #98 almost a month ago, but my hopes of getting #95 in first did not pan out (otherwise I would have raised this PR right after), so now I'm opening it as a minimal change to fast-track things. If breakage becomes severe enough (given that we're now defaulting to VS2022), I will merge, considering the blast radius.

[isuruf]

Hmm, this is a good reason to not go to the latest VS year. This is something to consider next time we update the VS major year

[h-vetinari]

This is something to consider next time we update the VS major year

Yeah, I agree. I did think about it already this time, but considered it non-critical because 17.14 is the last minor of the 17.x series.