Re: Is Meson on the horizon?

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Fri, 2017-07-28 at 12:46 +0100, Russel Winder wrote:
> On Fri, 2017-07-28 at 12:54 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
> > […]
> >
> > Maybe we could try having build file for Meson alongside the
> > autotools
> > files. Patches would be welcome. Someone might want to work in a
> > branch
> > for a while until it works. I suggest starting with glibmm.
>
> The GStreamer folk built their Meson build alongside the Autotools
> build in
> master rather than a separate branch. The Autotools was the official
> build,
> but having the Meson build being constructed in master got (at least
> in my
> view) more input from more people. 
>
> They also created a build super-project that pulled in all the
> libraries via
> git submodules and then built all at once. This helped a lot with
> ensuring
> always using a consistent set of libraries for people building from
> source.
>
> I could be inveigled upon to get involved in building a Meson build
> for
> glibmm, gtkmm, etc. but I cannot get stuck in till September.

Thanks. I'd rather not have it in glibmm's git master until it can
actually build glibmm. I might change my mind if many people appear who
want to work on it.

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Murray Cumming
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