On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 11:12 AM Matt Turner <matts...@gmail.com> wrote: > Regardless of all of that, what you're suggesting is only marking > autotools as deprecated (i.e., this patch) after all known problems > with the Meson build are fixed. At that point in 3 months down the > line if we get another bug report from a user that only learned of > Meson from this patch, you're going to advocate for keeping autotools > for another release. Rinse, repeat.
It's a multi-step process. > > We're simply trying to get the feedback from users sooner. And the > cost to you is very small: Use an extra flag. It's not a burden. Before the community is happy? Premature. The way you build consensus for a new thing is not by shooting the old thing in the foot. That just encourages me to pick up a shotgun too. You want something in the final banner that configure prints out about suggesting users try out meson? Fine by me. -ilia _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev
