Re: Switch to Meson

["Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)" <zeeshanak gnome org>]

Hi Felipe,

On 12 September 2017 at 11:36, Felipe Borges <felipeborges gnome org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Since we are just past the release 3.26[0], the new 6 months cycle
> shall give us plenty of time to test the new build system, and to file
> and fix build related bugs.

Cool. Great work on this.

> My planing is to make a gradual transition by merging the meson build
> code[1] and keep it working simultaneously with the current autotools
> machinery.

My opinion is that it's not worth it to keep the autotools around.
Instead you can provide backwards compatibility though a configure
script: https://git.gnome.org/browse/geocode-glib/tree/configure .
Just my two cents.

-- 
Regards,

Zeeshan Ali