On 06/11/17 20:19, Stefan Schmidt wrote: > 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 > From a brief memory of when I checked I think Debian was the main one and given they released earlier this year they are still a year or two off having a new version unless it can be added in some form of backports etc.
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