On 02/09/17 10:51, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Sep 2017 20:38:59 +0200 marcel-hollerb...@t-online.de said:
> 
>> On Fri, Sep 01, 2017 at 08:07:18PM +0200, Davide Andreoli wrote:
>>> 2017-09-01 19:50 GMT+02:00 Mike Blumenkrantz <michael.blumenkra...@gmail.com
>>>> :
>>>
>>>> It seems that the two build systems have fallen out of sync far faster
>>>> than I expected, and the autotools build is both no longer functional and
>>>> cannot provide a dist which is able to build using meson.
>>>>
>>>> I'm not particularly interested in putting in even more work to try and
>>>> maintain something which is pending removal, so if anyone is super
>>>> interested in keeping it for the E22 release then patches are welcome,
>>>> otherwise I'll plan to remove autotools entirely next week before starting
>>>> the official release cycle.
>>>>
>>>
>>> +1
>>>
>>
>> +1
>>
>> Just probebly checking if meson versions etc. fit the most distros, so
>> we dont leave users behind.
> 
> i think then autogen.sh should do what rage does and do a meson build setup 
> and
> fix appropriate INSTALL files etc. for how to build...
> 
> but we also should get some decent testing across multiple OS's like freebsd,
> openbsd (i know netstar maintains these as running systems ! :)). to ensure at
> least on a lot of targets it builds right. package maintainers too would be
> really fantastic if they could switch and test there too in package build 
> env's
> 
> 

https://www.howtoinstall.co/en/debian/stretch/meson Lists the version
of Meson on the debian release this year as 0.30.0, with the previous
version which will still be supported until May 2018 shipping 0.21.0

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