Re: meson ground rules!

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

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 want to do a wholesale migration to meson, I
> think it's starting to look likely as its advantages over Autotools
> and
> CMake are pretty clear to me. But we still need to make sure it's
> easy
> for contributors to build GNOME. So a couple ground rules for this
> from
> release team:
>
>  * Projects using meson are encouraged (although not required) to
> continue maintaining the Autotools build in parallel for GNOME 3.24
> as
> meson continues to mature. We will consider recommending the removal
> of
> Autotools builds in the GNOME 3.26 timeframe.
>
>  * 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 GNOME 3.26 next spring.
>
>  * Make sure your module builds in JHBuild. Important: do not switch
> JHBuild to use the meson module type until you have released a
> tarball
> that includes the meson build system.
>
>  * For GNOME 3.24, make sure your module builds in Continuous. You'll
> have to add a patch that adds a fake configure script and a fake
> Makefile. I do not believe this requirement is desirable going
> forward
> -- if we do a large scale switch to meson, then Continuous is just
> going to have to learn to grok our new build system -- but let's not
> break it now.

* Ditto for Flatpak nightly applications

> Thanks for helping make sure our release process goes smoothly,
>
> Michael
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