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

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Sun, 2017-08-13 at 20:42 +0200, Petr Kovar wrote:
> 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.

The pot file in those haven't changed since autotools, so the i18n
support should be as it was, unless damned-lies can't use the cached
version of the pot files.

> Your help with fixing #783099 would be much appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> pk
>
> [1] https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-i18n/2017-August/msg00015.h
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