Re: Upcoming changes

[Matthias Clasen <mclasen redhat com>]

On Wed, 2017-04-05 at 08:36 -0500, Michael Catanzaro wrote:

> We previously suggested that modules that were already ported to
> Meson
> not drop Autotools support before 3.24 was released, and to my
> knowledge all GNOME maintainers adhered to that request. For the 3.26
> cycle, we believe it is appropriate for modules that are comfortable
> with dropping support for Autotools to do so.

Yes. Maintaining 2 build systems for an extended time is madness.
I will not ask maintainers to do that.

> > At least in case of Vala, we have a downstream bug report [1], that
> > the generated files are not reproducible.
>
> This would be good to report upstream.

But is it really an issue ? Is there any need for intermediate products
of a build to be reproducible, aside from general 'reproducible build'
desires ? This is not any different from different compilers generating
 non-identical object files from the same C source, afaics.

The one concern I think we should take seriously is api docs, and how
to keep them working in 3.26 if libraries move to meson (I'm likely to
do this for gtk+ 3.91)