Hello. On 11/03/2017 07:07 PM, Mike Blumenkrantz wrote: > The E22 release is out now, so it's time to return to this issue. Currently > we have two build systems, and maintaining/updating both of them is not > feasible. At present, there is already significant divergence and various > features are not present in the autotools build (and never will be). The > decision is not whether to remove autotools or when to remove autotools, > it's what do we do about old distros.
Do we know which old distros are having this problem? This is a very similar to other external deps we have. We never really set rules on what version our dependencies can have based on what distros are shipping. We simply handled them when issues came up. If the distros are not the latest release of the very distro I would argue that they should upgrade. LTS versions are tricky though. > Based on previous discussions, it seems that there are still some users > whose distros do not yet ship a modern enough version of meson. The best > option, which is the option other projects which switch to meson have been > using, is to simply ship a tarball of a newer meson release along with our > code. The other option is to provide a link in the README. I don't have any > other ideas. > > I'll be removing autotools sometime next week, let's try to get some > discussion going about the best action to take going forward with this. I would suggest the following: 0) Dig a bit around to see what distros have a *latest* release which does not ship 0.39 1) Add a small a link and comment into the README 2a) If the majority of distros have it already simply go with the README solution 2b) If the majority of distros miss the needed meson version either ship the tarball or use the autogen.sh pr-build download script Raster suggested 3) Remove autotools support and monitor what problems come up to point people in the right direction regards Stefan Schmidt ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
