Hello On 22.04.19 04:32, Simon Lees wrote: > > > On 17/04/2019 22:45, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: >> On Wed, 17 Apr 2019 08:19:35 -0400 Mike Blumenkrantz >> <michael.blumenkra...@gmail.com> said: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> We are currently in the 1.23 release cycle, and it seems agreed upon >>> that >>> we are planning to remove autotools prior to the 1.23 release. >>> Overall, the >>> meson build is in reasonable shape--there are some small issues on >>> our main >>> platforms (and larger ones for Windows)--and it should not be an >>> issue to >>> meet this goal. >> >> i thought meson was in better shape... >> >>> With this in mind, I would like to propose a freeze on the autotools >>> build >>> starting Friday. This means that we no longer modify the autotools >>> build in >>> any way in the master branch (excepting outstanding patches in phab), >>> and >>> instead focus entirely on ensuring the quality of the meson build >>> system. >> >> i think we should push this off a few more weeks/month or 2. >> >>> There is not much action which would need to be taken for this: >>> * stop patching build files >>> * disable CI jobs for autotools >>> >>> >>> I think this would help to streamline build system development and >>> reduce >>> overhead for this release. >> >> i agree on this - but the autofoo needs to still work and be up to >> date until >> the point where meson is equivalent - the windows work is one ware it >> needs to >> catch up on for sure as well as some other niggles. get all of these >> up to >> snuff and... yup. drop autotools. >> > > Meson also doesn't work on some of the longer term distros that only > ship Meson 0.46 (while e does), at least from the last time I tried it.
When you say some you mean only OpenSuSe or also other longer term distros? I am not the biggest fan either of having to use newish releases of build tools but meson develops more rapidly and we actually did fixes on meson itself to build efl ( as well as gaining the needed performance). We also need to see this in some context. Meson 0.46 was released on 23.04.2018, which makes it a full year old by now. There actually is a 0.50 release now. We are not just using the latest of meson here, we use what we need to have efl building sanely for us. If I look around at other long term distro releases I can see this: - Debian stable has a recent backport - Ubuntu 18.04 (LTS) does ship 0.45.1 and I can't find a backport -> problem - Fedora has 0.47.2 back to fedora 28 and Fedora EPAL 7 - OpenSuse Leap 15.0 actually offers 0.46.0 while Leap 42.3 is still on 0.40.1 To mean that means I would like to know if you consider Leap 42.3 an important target for an upcoming EFL release (does it actually have all the other deps fr such a new release?). Also we need to find out if there are backports of meson >= 0.46 for Ubuntu 18.04 which I have not found. regards Stefan Schmidt _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
