Re: Meson feedback as a user

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

On 27 November 2017 at 09:56, Tomas Popela <tpopela redhat com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 10:49 AM, Richard Hughes <hughsient gmail com>
> wrote:
> > On 24 November 2017 at 14:49, Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com> wrote:
> > >  - Drop the "enable" from --enable-foo boolean options; Meson has
> > > boolean values, so -Denable-foo=true would read as redundant, and
> > > -Denable-foo=false would read as contradictory. Use -Dfoo=true or
> > > -Dfoo=false instead
> >
> > I'm guilt of this, I'll fix up my projects, but before I do is there
> > any list of best practices? e.g. should it be
> >
> > * -Dgtk_doc=true, -Dgtkdoc=true or -Ddocs=true?
> > * -Dintrospection=true or -Dgobject_introspection=true?
> > * -Dman=true or -Dman_pages=true
> > * -Dconsolekit=false or -DConsoleKit=false
>
>
> And what about  an option about enabling Vala bindings? In libsoup I use
> -Denable-vala, but if I would like to change it to -Dvala, then:
>
> Option name vala is reserved.
>
> or another logic one -Dvala_bindings:
>
> Option name vala_bindings is reserved.
>
> Any opinion?

You'll have to ask the Meson developers about this.

You could also have `generate_vapi` or `build_vapi` as options.

Ciao,
 Emmanuele.

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