Re: Death of gnome-common

[Frederic Peters <fpeters gnome org>]

Hi!

> Dave and I are planning to kill off gnome-common. The macros from it
> have been migrated to autoconf-archive[1], and gnome-autogen.sh is
> mostly irrelevant boilerplate which should be deleted or open-coded in
> people’s autogen.sh files in the first place.
>
> Is it OK if we do this, and eliminate the module from the modulesets? We
> were thinking about making a final release which contains
> gnome-autogen.sh unmodified, plus all the m4 macros defined as
> deprecated. After that, we would make a final commit which replaces
> gnome-autogen.sh with an unconditional error message directing people
> towards a wiki page for migration[2]. If they want to continue compiling
> against an older version of gnome-common, that’s fine, but master would
> be dead.
>
> How does that sound?

I'm all for killing it but the timeframe is important; at the moment
most modules are still using gnome-autogen.sh, what's the plan to
update them? That's typically GnomeGoals territory, we can certainly
add a new one, or update the ModernAutotools one[1].

Once we reach an arbitrary threshold of conversion, it would then be
ok to replace gnome-autogen.sh by an error message.


        Fred

[1] https://wiki.gnome.org/Initiatives/GnomeGoals/ModernAutotools