>
>Russel> I get the message. I'll go away.
>
>Christ, stop the passive aggresive stuff will you? And get a thicker
>skin when people trash you suggestion. If you feel so strongly about
>it, and if moving to CMake or some other tool will help you contribute
>in a major way to geeqie, then go ahea
> "Russel" == Russel Winder writes:
Russel> On Wed, 2016-11-16 at 07:43 -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
Russel> […]
>> I have never heard of Meson before. Certainly I may not be paying
>> enough attention, but it's hard to believe it is mainstream yet.
Russel> GStreamer for one is looking to rep
On 2016-11-19 08:55, Greg Troxel wrote:
> In the particular case I'm referring, the shiny things that replaced
> autotools was scons, and it's still causing problems, even years later.
Can you share some more details? What build/host/target triple? C, C++
or some other language? Executable or
> On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 08:44:13AM +, Russel Winder wrote:
>On Wed, 2016-11-16 at 14:58 -0500, Roger wrote:
>> I have used AutoTools for my or others' projects as well in the past,
>> and find??
>> AutoTools quite stable, albeit sometimes cryptic to configure at
>> times.
>>
>> I've tried ed
Russel Winder writes:
>> Before adopting a new build system, I'd like to see written
>> requirements
>> for the build system, specifically including portability and cross
>> building, and to see an analysis of how there will be no regressions.
>
> This is a clear management tool to say "we are n
On Wed, 2016-11-16 at 14:58 -0500, Roger wrote:
> I have used AutoTools for my or others' projects as well in the past,
> and find
> AutoTools quite stable, albeit sometimes cryptic to configure at
> times.
>
> I've tried educating myself with CMake, but found only low-level
> documentation
> pa
On Wed, 2016-11-16 at 07:43 -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
[…]
> I have never heard of Meson before. Certainly I may not be paying
> enough attention, but it's hard to believe it is mainstream yet.
GStreamer for one is looking to replace Autotools with Meson.
> While CMake is now reasonably common,
On Thu, 2016-11-17 at 07:53 +0100, Klaus Ethgen wrote:
> […]
>
> I see no need currently to even think about a new build tool.
> Autoconf/automake serves what it is used for and it does it good. It
> would take many work to change to other one.
>
> From the fact that the man power is very limited
On Wed, 2016-11-16 at 12:39 -0800, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
>
[…]
> I've never heard of mezon; if looking for a buildtool in python, why
> not
> scons? I've used scons and I liked it the best of any build tools.
I have actually been known to work on SCons from time to time over the
last decade, and
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Hi Russel,
Am Mi den 16. Nov 2016 um 11:40 schrieb Russel Winder:
> Geeqie currently has an Autotools build. A lot of the GTK world seems
> to be switching to Meson, or at least trying it out. JetBrains CLion
> only accepts CMake builds for projects
Ian Zimmerman writes:
> But in the context of geeqie, I'd say don't fix it as long as it's not
> broken. If it breaks, we can return to this discussion.
That's a very good point. geeqie seems to need more people to hack on
the code, and the build system really isn't a problem at all.
signa
On 2016-11-16 14:58, Roger wrote:
> I have used AutoTools for my or others' projects as well in the past,
> and find AutoTools quite stable, albeit sometimes cryptic to configure
> at times.
It's time for me to chime in even though I fear this is heading straight
for the bike shed ;-)
I have fou
Using "fgrep /usr/portage/* -r -e meson" on my Gentoo system, only results in
media-plugins/gst-transcoder and media-video/pitivi packages using or
optionally using the meson build system.
I think the Meson Wikipedia might be indicating GNOME, GTK+, GLib and GStreamer
might be optionally provid
I have used AutoTools for my or others' projects as well in the past, and find
AutoTools quite stable, albeit sometimes cryptic to configure at times.
I've tried educating myself with CMake, but found only low-level documentation
packaged with or available via CMake's website. All CMake's other
Russel Winder writes:
> Geeqie currently has an Autotools build. A lot of the GTK world seems
> to be switching to Meson, or at least trying it out. JetBrains CLion
> only accepts CMake builds for projects (at least currently). Is the
> Geeqie team committed to using Autotools, or if an alternat
Geeqie currently has an Autotools build. A lot of the GTK world seems
to be switching to Meson, or at least trying it out. JetBrains CLion
only accepts CMake builds for projects (at least currently). Is the
Geeqie team committed to using Autotools, or if an alternate build were
available might it
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