Re: Proposal for Gnome Goal (was Re: Switching from Autotools to CMake for core evolution products)

[Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro gnome org>]

On Thu, 2016-10-13 at 11:53 +0100, Sam Thursfield wrote:
> Would a GNOME-goal to ensure that every project follows the Build API
> help
> here?

What do the meson developers think about the Build API?

I think I would not support such a goal. I do not want to add a
boilerplate fake configure script to my project, nor a fake Makefile to
a project that doesn't use make at all. I want to have fewer build
system files to worry about, not more.

Michael