Hello. On 17.04.19 15:15, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: > On Wed, 17 Apr 2019 08:19:35 -0400 Mike Blumenkrantz > <michael.blumenkra...@gmail.com> said: > >> Hi, >> >> We are currently in the 1.23 release cycle, and it seems agreed upon that >> we are planning to remove autotools prior to the 1.23 release. Overall, the >> meson build is in reasonable shape--there are some small issues on our main >> platforms (and larger ones for Windows)--and it should not be an issue to >> meet this goal. > > i thought meson was in better shape... > >> With this in mind, I would like to propose a freeze on the autotools build >> starting Friday. This means that we no longer modify the autotools build in >> any way in the master branch (excepting outstanding patches in phab), and >> instead focus entirely on ensuring the quality of the meson build system. > > i think we should push this off a few more weeks/month or 2.
I would like to get reports on what is actually missing or problematic. We can push back the freeze a bit, but its only a freeze, not the autotools removal. And we need people to switch over to see if all the crazy use cases we do not have are covered. > >> There is not much action which would need to be taken for this: >> * stop patching build files >> * disable CI jobs for autotools >> >> >> I think this would help to streamline build system development and reduce >> overhead for this release. > > i agree on this - but the autofoo needs to still work and be up to date until > the point where meson is equivalent - the windows work is one ware it needs to > catch up on for sure as well as some other niggles. get all of these up to > snuff and... yup. drop autotools. ok, so a concrete list of things that blocks autotools freeze and removal: 1) Windows port: ecore_win32 (gdi and ddraw engines) need to work, maybe more to come, feedback from Vincent needed. 2) Meson minumim version requirement: Need to check if there is a backport for Ubuntu LTS, maybe a list with meson versions on different distros? Pretty sure there will be more, but the question is if we find out before we drop autotools or not. regards Stefan Schmidt _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
