Re: Porting applications to meson

[Iñigo Martínez <inigomartinez gmail com>]

I have ported Totem to meson and submitted a patch[0]. It would be
nice if someone reviews and some testing would also be very
appreciated.

It hasn't been trivial as it has its own quirks and twists, but I hope
it's good enough.

Best regards,

[0] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=783205


2017-05-22 21:37 GMT+02:00 Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>:
> On Mon, 2017-05-22 at 21:29 +0200, Iñigo Martínez wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have been using meson for some months now at work, and I've taken
> > advantage of what I learned to port some applications' build systems
> > to it (gnome-todo[0], bijiben[1] and gnome-calendar[2]). While I'm
> > waiting for those patches to be reviewed, I could also help on
> > porting
> > other applications' build systems too, although there is some work in
> > progress[3][4] and I would rather not start working on any random
> > application duplicating someone else's work.
> >
> > Is there any application that no one is working on and that it would
> > be interesting to port it to meson?
> >
> > Please, do not hesitate to contact me. I can try my best :)
>
> If you're interested, a non-trivial application would be totem. It has
> optional Python and Vala deps, an external API to port to the newer
> gtk-doc, etc.
>
> Porting any libraries in its dependency chain would also be helpful.
>
> Cheers