Re: Let's kill gnome-common!

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

On 13 February 2018 at 11:17, Milan Crha <mcrha redhat com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2018-02-13 at 09:33 +0000, Philip Withnall wrote:
> > porting the build systems of those modules to Meson is another
> > legitimate way to port away from gnome-common. It would be the better
> > choice in the long run for modules we are going to be maintaining for
> > a while.
>
>         Hi,
> I do not want to steal the thread, but when talking about ports to
> Meson, would it make sense to finally fix the infrastructure to work
> with other than automake files too [1]? It's when generating the
> content for developer.|help.gnome.org. Considering that plenty of
> projects already use Meson, either exclusively or as an alternative for
> autotools scripts, then it would be a good idea, from my point of view.
> I'd help myself there, but I do no speak pythonish. I guess someone
> with the knowledge would have that fixed relatively quickly.

Work is in progress to let maintainers upload tarballs with the
generate API reference for developer.gnome.org; I assume
help.gnome.org would follow the same pattern — but of course we only
have one Frederic, so help is indeed welcome.

Ciao,
 Emmanuele.

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