In the year 2018, of the month of April, on the 19th day, Carsten Haitzler wrote: > > > > Is Meson that neglected in some places? I had sort of assumed it would > > be under heavy support as it's become so popular. > > no - it's that meson has been changing a lot of late i'd say as it gets more > adoption and more projects find bugs and shortcomings in it and meson adds > features to match thus needing a very up to date version. if you use debian > (stable), ubuntu, fedora etc. you will not find them UPGRADING meson or really > any package. only providing bugfix/security fix packages (a new revision of > the > same version of the older pkg with the security or bug fix). they probably > focus most on security fixes and only the big bug fixes may get a fix. if the > fix is to upgrade the pkg they probably wont do it. > > that's why a rolling release distro (arch, gentoo, suse tumbleweed, debian > SID/testing etc.) will stay up to date as it's always ipdating and upgrading > all packages based on when upsterams release them.
Just a note that Debian also has a "backports" repo, which contains some updated binaries for the stable release. Meson is one such package. The backported version is a little behind testing/unstable, but is still much more recent than stable. https://packages.debian.org/stretch-backports/meson I use testing (buster) myself, and it compiles terminology 1.2 fine. Cheers, dave.k ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
