2017-11-08 18:56 GMT+01:00 Colin Helliwell <colin.helliw...@ln-systems.com>: > >> On 08 November 2017 at 16:54 Thomas Haller <thal...@redhat.com> wrote: >> >> 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! >> > > We build it within Yocto, so wouldn't want that to be ditched (meson > cross-building supported in Yocto? And/or keep autotools build as an option)
That's an issue, yes. Although I don't have an answer for it, `systemd` developers already had a discussion about the same issue[0]. The two build systems can live together. However, this can lead to one of them being a burden. Please, let me now if this issue is a problem for you. Best regards, [0] https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/6376 _______________________________________________ networkmanager-list mailing list networkmanager-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
