Re: meson ground rules!

2016-11-23 Thread Patrick Griffis via desktop-devel-list
On Wed, 2016-11-23 at 14:35 +0530, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: > From what I can understand, this is done specifically because distros > such as Ubuntu and F23 do not ship a new-enough version of Meson > quickly? Please correct me if I'm wrong. In particular, Ubuntu, yes. Fedora ships meson updates

Re: meson ground rules!

2016-11-23 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Wed, 2016-11-23 at 14:35 +0530, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: > From what I can understand, this is done specifically because distros > such as Ubuntu and F23 do not ship a new-enough version of Meson > quickly? Please correct me if I'm wrong. In particular, Ubuntu, yes. Fedora ships meson updates

Re: meson ground rules!

2016-11-22 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Tue, 2016-11-22 at 11:07 -0600, Michael Catanzaro wrote: > Hi, > > Some GNOME modules have started to experiment with switching to the > meson build system instead of Autotools. Personally, I want to > encourage this; even though as a project we haven't come to any > consensus on whether we

Re: meson ground rules!

2016-11-22 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Tue, 2016-11-22 at 12:48 -0600, Michael Catanzaro wrote: > On Tue, 2016-11-22 at 11:07 -0600, Michael Catanzaro wrote: > >  * Projects that choose to remove the Autotools build system must > not > > require meson newer than 0.34.0. We'll set a higher permissible > > version > > requirement for