> On 08 November 2017 at 16:54 Thomas Haller <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, 2017-11-08 at 13:40 +0100, Iñigo Martínez wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > These past few months I have been porting some libraries and > > applications to meson build system[0], within the "MesonPorting" > > initiative[1] that tries to port packages under GNOME umbrella to > > meson. > > > > As you may know, meson is a new build system which offers some > > benefits over autotools, of which I would like to highlight the > > following: it's very user friendly and usually, faster. > > > > The fact that NetworkManager is quite large, and due to the effort it > > would require to port it to meson, I would like to know if including > > meson as build system could be interesting. > > > > Please let me know any comment or suggestion you may have. > > > > Thanks! > > > > [0] http://mesonbuild.com/ > > [1] https://wiki.gnome.org/Initiatives/GnomeGoals/MesonPorting > > Hi, > > it seems that meson could significantly speed up the build, > which would be a very interesting thing to have. > > Yes, we want to port to meson, but due to the amount of work, nobody > started doing that (yet). > > Patches very welcome! >
We build it within Yocto, so wouldn't want that to be ditched (meson cross-building supported in Yocto? And/or keep autotools build as an option) _______________________________________________ networkmanager-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
