Re: developer.gnome.org and meson

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Wed, 2017-08-09 at 08:33 -0500, mcatanzaro gnome org wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 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.
>
> Is anybody working on developer.gnome.org? Anyone interested in
> taking 
> on this task? Otherwise it is going to be stuck with outdated docs.

I filed this:
https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/2166

I don't know whether that's something we'd want longer term, but it's a
win short-term.

Cheers