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

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Thu, 2016-10-13 at 10:18 -0500, Michael Catanzaro wrote:
> 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.

This "build API" is also what Flatpak expects. It's also baked in a
number of package build systems.