Re: [Vala] Nice stuff incoming for the next Meson release

[Michael Gratton <mike vee net>]

Hi Guillaume,

Thanks for this! We're thinking testing the waters with Meson for 
Geary[0], this might make it a bit easer to port to from cmake.

//Mike

[0] - <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=777044>

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On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 3:02 AM, Guillaume Poirier-Morency 
<guillaumepoiriermorency gmail com> wrote:
> There's a couple of changes on the way for the next release of Meson
> (0.40.0) that will have a really good and positive aspect for people 
> using
> Vala:
>
>    - support for multiple install directories (girdir, vapidir, 
> includedir,
>    ...)
>    - support for VALAFLAGS and -Dvala_args to pass compiler arguments 
> from
>    an external source
>    - arguments for specific GIR and VAPI install directory
>    - better and more consistent arguments for Vala targets
>
> If you don't use Meson yet, I strongly suggest you to consider using 
> it and
> help me making it into tier-1 language!
>
> Related PRs:
>
>    - https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/pull/1469
>    - https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/pull/1599
>    - https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/pull/954
>    - https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/pull/1603
>    - https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/pull/1610
>
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