[pitivi] Depend on meson 0.41.0 and use its new dist feature

[Thibault Saunier <tsaunier src gnome org>]

commit e7dd3bbc37e064251916c4b1eb4d5b2d70a514fd
Author: Thibault Saunier <tsaunier gnome org>
Date:   Sun Aug 6 09:58:26 2017 -0400

    Depend on meson 0.41.0 and use its new dist feature
    
    Reviewed-by: Alex Băluț <<alexandru balut gmail com>>
    Differential Revision: https://phabricator.freedesktop.org/D1821

 build/flatpak/pitivi.template.json |   16 ++++++++++++++++
 docs/release.md                    |    1 -
 meson.build                        |   16 +---------------
 3 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/build/flatpak/pitivi.template.json b/build/flatpak/pitivi.template.json
index c290ced..cfcb65a 100644
--- a/build/flatpak/pitivi.template.json
+++ b/build/flatpak/pitivi.template.json
@@ -290,6 +290,22 @@
             ]
         },
         {
+            "name": "meson",
+            "buildsystem": "simple",
+            "ensure-writable": ["easy-install.pth"],
+            "build-commands": [
+               "mkdir -p /app/lib/python3.5/site-packages",
+               "PYTHONUSERBASE=/app/ python3 setup.py install --prefix=/app"
+            ],
+            "sources": [
+                {
+                    "type": "archive",
+                    "url": 
"https://pypi.python.org/packages/6d/32/a474702fcba1144aef89e7ec5d8a33d49be8389a0f983d11aab486c8392b/meson-0.41.2.tar.gz#md5=3b4a99beb09a0286ca1307449570c689";,
+                    "sha256": "ad1707717987fe8b7b65392b8327580105fcbdd5f2032bf3b7232b647284c95c"
+                }
+            ]
+        },
+        {
             "name": "gstreamer",
             "buildsystem": "meson",
             "builddir": true,
diff --git a/docs/release.md b/docs/release.md
index e97d4e9..be0c81d 100644
--- a/docs/release.md
+++ b/docs/release.md
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@ Most of the steps below should be done in the [development environment](HACKING.
 
  3. Check your local repository:
    * Make sure your sandbox is using the latest GStreamer release: `$ ptvenv --update 
--gst-version=<gst-version>`
-   * Install git-archive-all in your sandbox to be able to create the archive to be distributed: `$ 
build/flatpak/py-configure --module=git-archive-all && make install`
    * Check `$ git status` does not show any change
    * Check `$ ptvenv ./configure` is all green
 
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index b1cb61d..55971b5 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-project('pitivi', 'c', version : '0.98', meson_version : '>= 0.36.0')
+project('pitivi', 'c', version : '0.98', meson_version : '>= 0.41.0')
 
 python = find_program('python3')
 intltool_merge = find_program('intltool-merge')
@@ -73,17 +73,3 @@ if not get_option('disable-help')
 endif
 subdir('tests')
 subdir('tests/validate-tests')
-
-archiver = find_program('git-archive-all', required : false)
-if archiver.found()
-    prefix = 'pitivi-' + meson.project_version()
-    archive = 'pitivi-' + meson.project_version() + '.tar.gz'
-    run_target('dist', command : ['git-archive-all', '--prefix=' + prefix, archive])
-else
-    message('git-archive-all not found, you will not be able to run `ninja dist`')
-    message('Install git-archive-all:')
-    message('  - with pip:')
-    message('    $ pip3 install git-archive-all')
-    message('  - in the sandbox:')
-    message('    (ptv-flatpak) $ build/flatpak/py-configure --module=git-archive-all && make install')
-endif