On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 1:13 AM Timo Aaltonen <tjaal...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > > On 17.11.2018 6.04, Dylan Baker wrote: > > Quoting Dylan Baker (2018-09-17 09:44:07) > >> I feel like for !windows meson is in good enough shape at this point that > >> we > >> can start having the discussion about deleting the autotools build. So, is > >> there > >> anything left that autotools can do that meson cannot (that we actually > >> want to > >> implement)? And, what is a reasonable time-table to remove the autotools > >> build? > >> I think we could reasonably remove it as soon as 18.3 if others felt > >> confident > >> that it would work for them. > >> > >> Dylan > > > > Okay, time for an update on things and a chance to talk about what else we > > need. > > > > Support for llvm-config (and any binary, actually) overriding has landed in > > meson, and will be present in the 0.49.0 release, which is due out December > > 9th. > > Hi, just a note that Ubuntu 18.04 LTS ships with meson 0.45.1 and will > get Mesa backports up until and including 20.0.x, so I wonder how > complex these required new features in meson are to be backported, or > perhaps easily worked around? Backporting a whole new version of meson > might not happen..
I understand the LTS concept, but what's the value in never upgrading something like a build tool like Meson? Yeah, new versions give a possibility of regressions, but with something evolving as quickly as Meson the version available in April 2018 becomes less useful for its intended purpose with each passing month... _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev
