> 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)
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