[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 113121] Switch build system to meson or cmake

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=113121

--- Comment #4 from Adolfo Jayme  ---
>From ESC meeting minutes, 2020-02-13 [1]:


* Meson build system experiments by Jussi Pakkanen (Ilmari)
+ Meson creator Jussi has done preliminary feasibility evaluation for free
+
https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2020/02/building-very-small-subset-of.html
+
https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2020/02/trying-to-build-slightly-larger-slice.html
+ if there is interest in principle, we can seek independent funding for a
prototype
+ prototype would make it easier to evaluate benefits
+ Ilmari’s perspective: want to make the codebase more approachable for
newcomers

+ understand that we don’t want to drop something that works already
(Ilmari)
+ not yet asking for a decision, but please think about this
+ what problem does this solve? (Kendy)
  + usually LO breaks the tools
+ GNOME / wayland is moving to this from autotools (Ilmari)
+ sitting on the fence (Thorsten)
  + significant cost to migrate to anything
  + there are load of unsolved problems with the build system, though
+ would not be great to pay some external developers to do the migration
and then let us maintain it (Stephan)
  + agreed (Kendy, Cloph)
+ better spend funding money elsewhere (Kendy)
  + e.g. external libs that can’t build in parallel


 [1]:
https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2020-February/084440.html

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[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 113121] Switch build system to meson or cmake

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--- Comment #3 from Adolfo Jayme  ---
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/ESC

Be aware that this request is like asking for a unicorn, however…

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[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 113121] Switch build system to meson or cmake

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--- Comment #2 from Yan Pas  ---
What is ESC?

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[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 113121] Switch build system to meson or cmake

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Adolfo Jayme  changed:

   What|Removed |Added

   Priority|medium  |lowest
 Status|UNCONFIRMED |NEW
 Ever confirmed|0   |1

--- Comment #1 from Adolfo Jayme  ---
Can you bring this up to the ESC?

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