On Thu, 19 Apr 2018 03:07:41 +0000 Stephen Houston <smhousto...@gmail.com> said:
> 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. if you install ubuntu 16.04 then 16.04 will not update meson. if you do apt-get update/upgrades it won't. it'll get bugfixes and security fixes. you need to actually go alter your package repo url's to upgrade. that is what i mean. you can upgrade to 17.04, then 18.04 etc.. but it requires explicitly changing repositories to upgrade, unlike a rolling distro where you don't change your repos and doing an update+upgrade just upgrades everything that has been updated in the repo since you last did this. > 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 > -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- Carsten Haitzler - ras...@rasterman.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
