Re: For projects switching to Meson *only*

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Fri, 2017-04-28 at 00:37 -0500, mcatanzaro gnome org wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 7:00 PM, Peter Hutterer 
> <peter hutterer who-t net> wrote:
> > I will, but I'll keep the two parallel for at least a release or
> > two. 
> > If you
> > need me to add anything specific to keep continuous happy for the
> > time
> > being, let me know.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >    Peter
>
> Here's a request for maintainers who are supporting both meson and 
> Autotools: please consider adding the meson build files to your
> release 
> tarballs (add them to EXTRA_DIST) if you want people to actually use 
> the meson build system. You don't have to, but it'd be nice.
>
> For people helping maintain the jhbuild modulesets, please do not 
> switch modules to use meson until the meson build files have
> appeared 
> in a release tarball, or you're confident they will appear in the
> next 
> tarball. (Unless Autotools support has already been dropped, in
> which 
> case maintainers, please follow the GNOME release cycle in making
> your 
> next release!) This will reduce the amount of manual hacking
> required 
> to produce release modulesets that actually build. I've temporarily 
> switched GStreamer and Grilo back to using Autotools for this reason.

What was the problem with Grilo's meson support?

We have a bug opened for a regression with the 0.4.0 version, but the
meson build works as expected in jhbuild.

Cheers