Also, the comment that was made about Ubuntu and Fedora not updating meson (or any other apps as was stated) is very misleading. Both Fedora and Ubuntu stay well up to date and keep their packages very up to date. The meson version included in both distros stable repos work just fine to build e, efl, and e apps using meson. No need to force the rolling release point of view there. Yes debian is usually way behind, and yes way behind ubuntu and fedora too, so not surprised there.
On Wed, Apr 18, 2018, 9:52 PM Dave <d...@flex.com.au> wrote: > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
