On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 10:17 AM Stefan Schmidt <ste...@datenfreihafen.org> wrote: > > 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.
meson is installed throughpython, no ? 'pip3 install --upgrade meson' should upgrade to latest meson on all distro no? Vincent _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
