On November 29, 2018 19:49:33 Alex Deucher <alexdeuc...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 8:26 PM Eric Anholt <e...@anholt.net> wrote:
Emil Velikov <emil.l.veli...@gmail.com> writes:
Hi all,
I can see why people may opt to not use or maintain the autotools build.
Although I would kindly ask that we do not remove it just yet.
In Mesa, we have different parts not used by different teams. As such
we tend to remove stuff when nobody is around to maintain it anymore.
That said, I'm planning to continue maintaining it and would appreciate
if we keep it in-tree.
As people may be concerned about bugreports and alike we can trivially
add a warning (as configure is invoked) to forwards any issues to my
email. Additionally (or alternatively) we can have an autotools bugzilla
category with me as the default assignee.
What do you guys think?
Strongly disagree. We shouldn't be maintaining build systems for fun,
we should be doing the minimum amount of build system work to get our
actual work done quickly and reliably.
If someone has a legitimate use for it and wants to maintain it, why
not? How is the build system any different than a specific feature in
the project?
Does it have a purpose? I know it has a maintenance burden. How is it
different? As long as it exists, it is going to impose that maintenance
burden on all of the developers in the project. As long as someone is using
autotools to build Mesa (especially if that someone is a developer), we all
have to keep it working.
--Jason
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