Re: Switch to Meson

[Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau redhat com>]

Hey,

On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 01:29:25PM +0200, Felipe Borges wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 4:46 PM, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
> <zeeshanak gnome org> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I like your suggestion.
>
> Since it has been a week, were you (and others) able to build Boxes
> with meson without any problems? I wouldn't like to drop autotools if
> meson "just works for me"™.

It seems jhbuild still uses the autotools to build gnome-boxes?
Switching it to meson would give you some more testers :)

Christophe