Re: Shall libxml++ keep supporting Autotools?

[Kjell Ahlstedt <kjellahlstedt gmail com>]

Den 2022-03-29 kl. 20:45, skrev Nils Tonnätt via libxmlplusplus-list:

Hi everybody!

I'm new to the list, so I couldn't directly answer to the subject.

Kjell wrote:

The underlying C library, libxml2, can't be built with Meson.

But there's even a libxml2 meson wrap.

    libxml2 can be built with Autotools or CMake. When I read about
    Meson subprojects once again today, I noticed that a subproject can
    be built with CMake. I wasn't aware of that before. That's why
    there's no subprojects/libxml-2.0.wrap file in libxml++. It's
    probably no big problem, at least not in a Linux system. You should
    be able to install libxml2 with your distros package manager.

I opened an issue on wrapdb today about updating the libxml++ (or currently libxmlpp) wrap:

https://github.com/mesonbuild/wrapdb/issues/361

To my understanding there should be three wraps, for 3.0, 4.0 and 5.0. Is this correct?

    If anyone wants these wraps, and anyone wants to add them, that's
    okay. I don't know who decides what shall be possible to install
    with meson wrap install.

-- Nils