On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 2:28 PM Ilia Mirkin <imir...@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 5:12 PM Matt Turner <matts...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > From: Gert Wollny <gw.foss...@gmail.com>
> >
> > 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
> >
> > NAKed-by: Ilia Mirkin <imir...@alum.mit.edu>
>
> [nouveau]
>
> > Acked-by: Eric Engestrom <eric.engest...@intel.com>
> > Acked-by: Kenneth Graunke <kenn...@whitecape.org>
> > Acked-by: Lionel Landwerlin <lionel.g.landwer...@intel.com>
> > Acked-by: Jason Ekstrand <ja...@jlekstrand.net>
> > Reviewed-by: Matt Turner <matts...@gmail.com>
>
> [intel]
>
> > Acked-by: Rob Clark <robdcl...@gmail.com>
>
> [freedreno]
>
> > Acked-by: Marek Olšák <marek.ol...@amd.com>
>
> [radeon]
>
> > Reviewed-by: Christian Gmeiner <christian.gmei...@gmail.com>
>
> [etnaviv]
>
> > Reviewed-by: Eric Anholt <e...@anholt.net>
>
> [vc4]
>
> > Signed-off-by: Gert Wollny <gw.foss...@gmail.com>
>
> [sorry Gert, not sure how to classify you]
>
> I think the vmware team (which largely maintains llvmpipe and svga) is
> probably worth hearing from -- I believe they've largely stayed out of
> it. But an ack/nack would be good. Also virgl isn't represented, I
> believe. Probably not *required* to hear from these, but perhaps worth
> a poke?

Sure. I've Cc'd Dave, Brian, José, and Roland on this reply.

> > ---
> > I think there's support for overriding the sole objection to this patch.
> >
> > To confirm:
> >
> >     (1) The plan is to remove Autotools, perhaps after the 19.0 release
> >
> >     (2) This patch's purpose is to ensure that everyone knows that
> >         Autotools will be going away (think: people who build Mesa as
> >         part of an automated process and wouldn't notice a deprecation
> >         warning unless it requires some action from them)
>
> If it's being removed _after_ the 19.0 release, does it make sense to
> have a patch like this _in_ the 19.0 release? (Perhaps the answer is
> `yes', but I'd still like to ask the question.)

Yes, I think so -- I might be missing or misunderstanding a part of
your question though.

My thinking is in 19.0 mark autotools as deprecated with this patch so
as to ensure everyone knows, and depending on progress on the blocking
issues to aim for removal after the 19.0 branch point.
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