On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 2:51 AM Juan A. Suarez Romero <jasua...@igalia.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2018-12-17 at 19:51 +0100, Bas Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 6:33 PM Juan A. Suarez Romero > > <jasua...@igalia.com> wrote: > > > On Mon, 2018-12-03 at 10:21 +0000, Eric Engestrom wrote: > > > > Cc: Emil Velikov <emil.l.veli...@gmail.com> > > > > Cc: Andres Gomez <ago...@igalia.com> > > > > Cc: Juan A. Suarez Romero <jasua...@igalia.com> > > > > Cc: Dylan Baker <dy...@pnwbakers.com> > > > > Signed-off-by: Eric Engestrom <eric.engest...@intel.com> > > > > --- > > > > This patch depends on the releasing procedure in docs/releasing.html > to > > > > be updated to not rely on autotools anymore. > > > > > > > > I think our release managers (cc'ed) should work together and figure > out > > > > the procedure they want to go by; only once that's done can we delete > > > > these 200+ files and 14k+ lines :) > > > > > > I'll let others to talk. But my preference would be to land this for > next 19.0 > > > branchpoint, just a couple of days before the branchpoint, so 19.0.x > releases > > > get rid of autotools. > > > > > > This way we have time to fix any remaining issue, and make like easier > for those > > > in charge of 18.3.x releases, which I think should support autotools > until the > > > end of its life. > > > > Can I suggest the inverse, pushing this long before any branchpoint? > > > > As with any migration, users only start using when you force them too, > > and that means a bunch of non-working usecases are going to be > > detected once this patch is pushed and some more people are forced to > > it. Sure, the last call discussion served to tease some of these out, > > but I expect even more will turn up if you submit this. > > > > The bad part is that this make life more complex for the person in charge > of the > stable release, because it means that any patch that touches the build > system > will only touch the meson, but not the autotools, which means either the > original author or the release manager should fix the part of the > autotools in > order to avoid breaking it. > How common is it to have build system patches back-ported to stable? I genuinely don't know but I would suspect it's not all that frequent of a thing.
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