Re: Death of gnome-common



It’s already sort of tracked as part of the ModernAutotools goal,
although that one lost momentum a while ago, so its status needs to be
reset:

https://wiki.gnome.org/Initiatives/GnomeGoals/ModernAutotools

However, since there’s no flag-day-changeover for gnome-common, I’m not
sure it’s necessary to have a GNOME Goal. Maintainers hate touching
build systems unnecessarily.

Philip

On Thu, 2015-05-28 at 14:03 +0200, Daniel Mustieles García wrote:
Would this make sense to create a GNOME Goal[1] to ease/track the
change?

[1]
https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Initiatives/GnomeGoals?action=show&redirect=GnomeGoals


2015-05-28 13:47 GMT+02:00 Philip Withnall <philip tecnocode co uk>:
        Hi all,
        
        This cycle, Dave and I are planning for the last ever release
        of
        gnome-common. A lot of its macros for deprecated technologies
        (scrollkeeper?!) have been removed, and the remainder of its
        macros have
        found better replacements in autoconf-archive[1], where they
        can be used
        by everyone, not just GNOME.
        
        We plan to make one last release, and people are welcome to
        depend on it
        for as long as they like. However, if you want new hotness,
        port to the
        autoconf-archive versions of the macros; but please do it in
        your own
        time. There will be no flag day port away from gnome-common.
        
        Note that, for example, porting to AX_COMPILER_FLAGS is
        valuable, but
        will probably require fixing a number of new compiler warnings
        in your
        code due to increased warning flags. We hope this will make
        your code
        better in the long run.
        
        There’s a migration guide here:
        
        https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomeCommon/Migration
        
        We’ve tried to make the transition as easy and smooth as
        possible, but
        there will inevitably be hiccups. Please let me know about
        anything
        which breaks or doesn’t make sense. First person to complain
        about
        -Wswitch-enum gets a prize.
        
        
        For developers
        ---
        
        When building from a tarball of a module which uses the new
        macros, you
        will no longer need gnome-common installed. (Although you may
        not have
        needed it before.)
        
        When building from git, you will need m4-common[2] or
        autoconf-archive[1] installed.
        
        JHBuild bootstrap installs m4-common automatically, as does
        gnome-continuous; so you don’t need to worry about that.
        
        For packagers
        ---
        
        In the 3.14.0 release, gnome-common installed some early
        versions of the
        autoconf-archive macros which conflicted with what
        autoconf-archive
        itself installs. It now has a --[with|
        without]-autoconf-archive
        configure option to control this. We suggest that all
        packagers pass
        --with-autoconf-archive if (and only if) autoconf-archive is
        packaged on
        the distribution. See bug #747920[3].
        
        m4-common *must not* be packaged. See its README[2]. m4-common
        is
        essentially a caching subset of autoconf-archive.
        
        For continuous integrators
        ---
        
        Modules which use the new AX_COMPILER_FLAGS macro gain a new
        standard
        --disable-Werror configure flag, which should be used in CI
        systems (and
        any other system where spurious compiler warnings should _not_
        cause
        total failure of a build) to disable -Werror. The idea here is
        that
        -Werror is enabled by default when building from git, and
        disabled by
        default when building from release tarballs and in buildbots.
        
        Philip
        
        [1]: http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf-archive/
        [2]: https://github.com/desrt/m4-common/
        [3]: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=747920
        
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