Re: [Evolution-hackers] Switching from Autotools to CMake for core evolution products

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Mon, 2016-10-10 at 11:37 -0500, Michael Catanzaro wrote:
> On Mon, 2016-10-10 at 11:51 -0400, Owen Taylor wrote:
> > To get them building again from HEAD again, what you can do is add
> > a
> > compatibility configure script as described in:
>
> I don't want to add compatibility configure scripts to GNOME modules
> that switch to CMake or Meson. Continuous should just learn how to
> build such modules properly, like JHBuild does.

I agree about whatever we switch GNOME over to en-masse, but for
scattered projects, I'm less sure, and I'm particularly less sure about
CMake, where there seems to be a certain lack of uniformity.

Can you propose what the necessary change would be to:

 https://people.gnome.org/~walters/build-api/build-api.md

? 

> The compatibility
> configure scripts can live in the Continuous git repository in the
> meantime, for as long as they're needed.

I don't think gnome-continuous should be considered to be some sort
dark corner where things should be shoved that only the "gnome-
continuous maintainers" have to worry about. *All* GNOME maintainers
should consider themselves the maintainers of their module in gnome-
continuous.

- Owen