On Mon, 2016-10-10 at 10:49 +0200, Sebastian Geiger (Lanoxx) wrote: > On 05/10/16 15:39, Michael Biebl wrote: > > > > > As much as I hate autotools and its arcane syntax, it does bring > > uniformity and consistency. > > Atm I'm counting waf (for some non-core modules), autotools, cmake and > > some are discussing to use meson/ninja. > > > > So while I'm not tied to autotools, I would hate to see if every > > modules maintainer chooses his/her own build system of choice. This > > makes it really cumbersome as downstream/integrator. > Maybe it would make sense to introduce an official Gnome Goal that > encourages every module maintainer to switch over to > meson. > > This would of course mean that we already know meson will be the build > system of choice and that it fits the > needs of all modules. Of course individual module maintainers would > still be free to make a different choice or to stick with autotools but > we would at least have something to motivate the migration, to track its > status across all modules and it would be a push to towards some level > of consistency. Also we could collect some best practices from modules > that have already done the conversion on a Gnome Goal page.
I don’t think we’ve ported enough modules as testbeds yet. Meson is too new to jump into encouraging everyone to port GNOME modules en-masse. Maybe the goal could be proposed in 6 months once Meson has matured a bit more and more modules have dogfooded it? Philip _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
