On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 2:28 AM Gert Wollny <gw.foss...@gmail.com> wrote: > Am Donnerstag, den 29.11.2018, 17:44 +0000 schrieb Emil Velikov: > > Hi all, > > > > I can see why people may opt to not use or maintain the autotools > > build. Although I would kindly ask that we do not remove it just yet. > > I second that, I think the process of removing autotools should be a > two-step procedure. i.e. prior to ripping autotools support out there > should be one or two releases that deprecates it, e.g. by changing > configure that it (1) needs an extra flag to run, and (2) when run > without this flag it would just print a message about the meson build > system, the deprecation of autotools (making it clear when it will be > removed), and information how to still run autotools with this extra > flag. If qwe > > A rationale is that with a release that only has mesa there is a high > chance that people not directly involved with the project, and that > don't follow git but only use the releases hit corner cases when > building mesa that we or maintainers for distributions might not be > aware of. Still having something around that is known to work would be > good for them, so they can report a bug against the meson build system > and still get their work done by easily switching to the autotools for > the time being.
I've been using Meson to build Mesa in Gentoo for a ~6 months now, and I've reported (and Dylan has fixed) a handful of corner case bugs. Dylan is super responsive, usually having a fix within a day. It's been great, really. And we've been discussing removing autotools for more than a year now. I think we've been plenty conservative and there's nothing to be gained / no problems to be avoided by delaying further. (And again, if someone comes out of the woodwork with a bug in the Meson build, Dylan will fix it within a day in my experience) _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev
