Re: meson version for GNOME 3.26

[Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro gnome org>]

On Tue, 2017-03-21 at 01:29 -0400, Patrick Griffis via desktop-devel-
list wrote:
> > 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.g
> nome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780339

OK great, thanks. No maximum Meson version for GNOME 3.26 then. \o/

Michael