Re: API stability for Meson configuration options

[mcatanzaro gnome org]

On Sun, Feb 17, 2019 at 8:55 AM, Sam Thursfield via desktop-devel-list 
<desktop-devel-list gnome org> wrote:
> Do we have a policy for if/when we can do breaking changes to Meson 
> configuration API? If this was a change to the C API, we'd delay it 
> until the next major release (in this case Tracker 3.0).

If gnome-build-meta or gnome-continuous use those options, then they 
need to be updated at the time you make the change. If you touch 
gnome-build-meta, be sure to release a new tarball before the next 
scheduled tarball deadline. (And ask Garnacho about tarball problems 
specific to tracker.) In this particular case, it looks like 
gnome-build-meta is fine but gnome-continuous will need to be updated 
to not use the -Ddocs= option.

I'd consider avoiding such changes after the .90 release, but there's 
no strict policy, other than keep GNOME building.

Thanks,

Michael