Re: [Geeqie-devel] Build for Geeqie

2016-11-16 Thread Klaus Ethgen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi Russel, Am Mi den 16. Nov 2016 um 11:40 schrieb Russel Winder: > Geeqie currently has an Autotools build. A lot of the GTK world seems > to be switching to Meson, or at least trying it out. JetBrains CLion > only accepts CMake builds for projects

Re: [Geeqie-devel] Build for Geeqie

2016-11-16 Thread Greg Troxel
Ian Zimmerman writes: > But in the context of geeqie, I'd say don't fix it as long as it's not > broken. If it breaks, we can return to this discussion. That's a very good point. geeqie seems to need more people to hack on the code, and the build system really isn't a problem at all. signa

Re: [Geeqie-devel] Build for Geeqie

2016-11-16 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2016-11-16 14:58, Roger wrote: > I have used AutoTools for my or others' projects as well in the past, > and find AutoTools quite stable, albeit sometimes cryptic to configure > at times. It's time for me to chime in even though I fear this is heading straight for the bike shed ;-) I have fou

Re: [Geeqie-devel] Build for Geeqie

2016-11-16 Thread Roger
Using "fgrep /usr/portage/* -r -e meson" on my Gentoo system, only results in media-plugins/gst-transcoder and media-video/pitivi packages using or optionally using the meson build system. I think the Meson Wikipedia might be indicating GNOME, GTK+, GLib and GStreamer might be optionally provid

Re: [Geeqie-devel] Build for Geeqie

2016-11-16 Thread Roger
I have used AutoTools for my or others' projects as well in the past, and find AutoTools quite stable, albeit sometimes cryptic to configure at times. I've tried educating myself with CMake, but found only low-level documentation packaged with or available via CMake's website. All CMake's other

Re: [Geeqie-devel] Build for Geeqie

2016-11-16 Thread Greg Troxel
Russel Winder writes: > Geeqie currently has an Autotools build. A lot of the GTK world seems > to be switching to Meson, or at least trying it out. JetBrains CLion > only accepts CMake builds for projects (at least currently). Is the > Geeqie team committed to using Autotools, or if an alternat

[Geeqie-devel] Build for Geeqie

2016-11-16 Thread Russel Winder
Geeqie currently has an Autotools build. A lot of the GTK world seems to be switching to Meson, or at least trying it out. JetBrains CLion only accepts CMake builds for projects (at least currently). Is the Geeqie team committed to using Autotools, or if an alternate build were available might it