Re: Let's pause meson migration in preparation for the 3.26 release

[Petr Kovar <pmkovar gnome org>]

On Fri, 11 Aug 2017 11:21:05 -0500
Michael Catanzaro <mike catanzaro gmail com> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 10:59 AM, Jeremy Bicha <jbicha ubuntu com> 
> wrote:
> > If you want to do these things, please branch for 3.26 and make your 
> > changes to git master for 3.27/3.28.
> >
> > Please do continue to fix bugs in the meson build for your modules.
>
> Thanks Jeremy! This is a good rule to follow.
>
> I do encourage projects to remove their Autotools build systems as soon 
> as reasonable, since having to support two build systems is causing 
> many problems. But it's probably not reasonable to do so at this point 
> until after you've first branched for gnome-3-26.

Related to this, when migrating your module, please do keep in mind that
Damned Lies support for Meson modules is still incomplete, see
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=783099.

As Piotr reported elsewhere [1], totem-pl-parser, nautilus-sendto, and
gnome-bluetooth have broken/incomplete i18n support as a result.

Your help with fixing #783099 would be much appreciated.

Thanks,
pk

[1] https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-i18n/2017-August/msg00015.html