On Tue, 2016-11-22 at 11:07 -0600, Michael Catanzaro wrote: > Hi, > > Some GNOME modules have started to experiment with switching to the > meson build system instead of Autotools. Personally, I want to > encourage this; even though as a project we haven't come to any > consensus on whether we want to do a wholesale migration to meson, I > think it's starting to look likely as its advantages over Autotools > and > CMake are pretty clear to me. But we still need to make sure it's > easy > for contributors to build GNOME. So a couple ground rules for this > from > release team: > > * Projects using meson are encouraged (although not required) to > continue maintaining the Autotools build in parallel for GNOME 3.24 > as > meson continues to mature. We will consider recommending the removal > of > Autotools builds in the GNOME 3.26 timeframe. > > * Projects that choose to remove the Autotools build system must not > require meson newer than 0.34.0. We'll set a higher permissible > version > requirement for GNOME 3.26 next spring. > > * Make sure your module builds in JHBuild. Important: do not switch > JHBuild to use the meson module type until you have released a > tarball > that includes the meson build system. > > * For GNOME 3.24, make sure your module builds in Continuous. You'll > have to add a patch that adds a fake configure script and a fake > Makefile. I do not believe this requirement is desirable going > forward > -- if we do a large scale switch to meson, then Continuous is just > going to have to learn to grok our new build system -- but let's not > break it now.
* Ditto for Flatpak nightly applications > Thanks for helping make sure our release process goes smoothly, > > Michael > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > desktop-devel-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
