On Mon, Feb 05, 2024 at 01:36:56PM -0800, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > On 2/5/24 12:45, tlaro...@kergis.com wrote: > > I'm continuing my review and I'm now looking at libxcb and xcbproto. > > > > Is there a goal set to switch from auto* tools to meson/ninja for the > > maximum of projects? > > Yes - that's our overall direction, but progress is going slowly. There > is some though - if you look at the postings from the past few days on > https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2024-February/thread.html > you'll see libpciaccess dropped the autoconf files altogether after > having a previous release with both, and libxkbfile & libXvMC both > had their first releases with meson added and announcing plans to > drop autoconf in the future. >
OK. (I will subscribe to xorg-announce too...) > > Since I have to untangle things for my own built framework, I may as > > well provide meson files (that are undoubtely more readable than the > > auto* dance) when I am at it... > > That'd be nice. You should be able to find a number of examples of > how we've set up the .gitlab-ci.yaml files to build with both methods > when both are present and test that the expected combinations work. OK. So for others, I take for now (for the meson stuff) xcbproto and libxcb. Note: I have a huge, urgent, development process going for business purposes, so I work on this Xorg task only when I have a slot. No news will not mean that I have dropped it or that it takes _this_ amount of time. -- Thierry Laronde <tlaronde +AT+ kergis +dot+ com> http://www.kergis.com/ http://kertex.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C