On Sun, Dec 16, 2018 at 6:24 AM Gert Wollny <gw.foss...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Since Meson will eventually be the only build system deprecate autotools > now. It can still be used by invoking configure with the flag > --enable-autotools > > Signed-off-by: Gert Wollny <gw.foss...@gmail.com> > --- > IMO autotools should be properly deprecated prior it its removal, so here > is a patch to do just that. I think autotools should be marked as deprecated > for the 19.0 release and, depending on feedback, it could be removed with > 19.1. > Anyway, in the end it's up to the release team how to handle this.
I think too many usability issues are left over in meson to make it the recommended build system, and remove the system that everyone knows how to use. If people want to use meson that's fine, but a number of concerns have been surfaced which make it currently unsuitable. I plan on doing a longer write-up covering some of the things I've mentioned in the past along with some new ones. If the concern is that there are 2 build systems and it's unclear which to use, I'd definitely err on the side of making meson the one requiring extra hoops to jump through. Cheers, -ilia _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev