Re: Porting applications to meson

[Javier Jardón <jjardon gnome org>]

On 23 May 2017 at 10:14, Milan Crha <mcrha redhat com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2017-05-23 at 09:55 +0100, Javier Jardón wrote:
> > I've been thinking on doing this for a while, so here you go:
> >
> > https://wiki.gnome.org/Initiatives/GnomeGoals/MesonPorting
>
>         Hi,
> do not count with evolution* for now, please. I'm not willing to change
> their build system again, that soon after the change to CMake. I'm
> quite happy with CMake, to be honest.
>
> And as long as its dependencies like WebKitGTK+ or libical use CMake,
> thus it's needed for Continuous, jhbuild, and what-so-ever-other
> consumers, there's really not much need to change to Meson for these,
> from my point of view.
>
> I know each has its parts which can do better than the other, that's
> pretty common. The suggested effort may work for Meson as an advertise
> and to popularize it, which can be also good for Meson, no doubt.

Sure, this is more to coordinate effort and avoid duplicating effort

Also help people that are interested to port and need some examples to
get started


Cheers,
Javier Jardón