Re: Meson and Autotools, or only Meson?

[Kjell Ahlstedt <kjellahlstedt gmail com>]

On 2020-03-26 03:06, Pavlo Solntsev wrote:

> On Wed, 2020-03-25 at 18:49 +0100, Kjell Ahlstedt via gtkmm-list wrote:
> > These *mm packages can now be built either with Meson or with
> > Autotools:
> >
> > mm-common
> > libsigc++-2.0, libsigc++-3.0
> > glibmm-2.4, glibmm-2.66
> > pangomm-1.4, pangomm-2.44
> > (gtkmm-documentation-3,) gtkmm-documentation-4
> > I've put gtkmm-documentation-3 in parentheses because there is no
> > released tarball with Meson support, it's only in the git repo.
> >       
> How about ninja dist?
> https://mesonbuild.com/Creating-releases.html
>
>

Yes, what about ninja dist? What do you mean? It should work with the listed packages. Have you found that it doesn't? Or is your question a way of saying that I should have used ninja dist instead of make distcheck in recent releases?

Kjell