Re: Meson and Autotools, or only Meson?

[Kjell Ahlstedt <kjellahlstedt gmail com>]

On 2020-03-26 11:01, Murray Cumming wrote:

> On Thu, 2020-03-26 at 09:42 +0100, Kjell Ahlstedt wrote:
> >  warnings=fatal is the default. I
> > have tried to make the "warnings" option equal to the Autotools
> > equivalent, except that "fatal" is the default.
> >       
> I wonder if that's wise. It will lead to unnecessary build breakage,
> for instance for packagers, when they upgrade compilers or
> dependencies. If this remains the default, we might need to give people
> obvious instructions about how to build more forgivingly.
>     
    I have changed the default warning level to min, except when
    a tarball is created and tested. (ninja dist corresponds to make
      distcheck.) That's how autotools builds work.
> > Gtkmm itself can't be built with Meson yet. That's several months
> > ahead, I think.
> >       
> You might consider, if you like, not removing autotools from the other
> builds until gtkmm uses Meson, if you remove autotools. That would be a
> simpler story.
>
>
>     
    Other comments have made me believe that we ought to keep the
    autotools support until most common distros contain mm-common 1.0.0
    or higher. (Building with meson in maintainer mode requires
    mm-common >= 1.0.0.)