Re: meson version for GNOME 3.26

[Patrick Griffis <tingping tingping se>]

Hi,

For GNOME 3.26, the maximum required version of meson will be meson

0.39.1 (matching what will be in Ubuntu 17.04). If you remove Autotools

support from your module in favor of meson, you must ensure that it

builds properly with this version of meson. (If you have added a meson

build but retain Autotools support, then you can require whatever

version of meson you want.)

Reminder: for GNOME 3.24 the maximum required version of meson is

0.34.0.

Ideally, we would build meson in JHBuild itself and ignore the version

of meson installed on the system, freeing ourselves from this version

requirement. It requires a volunteer to teach JHBuild to understand

that <meson> tags in the moduleset definitions mean it has to build the

meson module. Currently JHBuild understands it to mean that it requires

the meson package to be installed on the system, and code changes are

required to alter this.

Michael

Submitted patches to install Meson within JHBuild: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780339