On Wed, 2017-11-08 at 13:40 +0100, Iñigo Martínez wrote: > Hi all, > > These past few months I have been porting some libraries and > applications to meson build system[0], within the "MesonPorting" > initiative[1] that tries to port packages under GNOME umbrella to > meson. > > As you may know, meson is a new build system which offers some > benefits over autotools, of which I would like to highlight the > following: it's very user friendly and usually, faster. > > The fact that NetworkManager is quite large, and due to the effort it > would require to port it to meson, I would like to know if including > meson as build system could be interesting. > > Please let me know any comment or suggestion you may have. > > Thanks! > > [0] http://mesonbuild.com/ > [1] https://wiki.gnome.org/Initiatives/GnomeGoals/MesonPorting
Hi, it seems that meson could significantly speed up the build, which would be a very interesting thing to have. Yes, we want to port to meson, but due to the amount of work, nobody started doing that (yet). Patches very welcome! best, Thomas
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