Re: developer.gnome.org and meson

[Frederic Peters <fpeters gnome org>]

mcatanzaro gnome org wrote:

> developer.gnome.org is going to have some problems because for meson modules
> 'ninja dist' does not include generated gtk-doc files in the tarball. At
> least one maintainer is working around this by manually generating tarballs
> with gtk-doc included instead of using 'ninja dist'. I don't recommend doing
> that since that's equivalent to skipping distcheck. It's better to use
> meson's dist target. developer.gnome.org is just going to have to learn to
> build docs itself.

But that often requires a full build environment, which is the reason
it doesn't do that.  Continuous or whatever CI system should include a
step publishing built documentation files, it will then be "easy" for
developer.gnome.org to use those.



        Fred