Re: For projects switching to Meson *only*

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Fri, 2017-04-28 at 10:19 -0500, mcatanzaro gnome org wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 4:40 AM, Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net> 
> wrote:
> > 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
>
> Problem with grilo is there are no meson build files in the latest 
> release tarballs, and the modulesets need to work when converted to 
> tarballs for our release process.

Are you saying you reverted jhbuild module changes, without notifying
the committer, because there's a problem with the grilo/grilo-plugins
handling, but you didn't file a bug against those modules?