Re: Proposal: Recommend meson for glib 2.58.0

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Le vendredi 08 juin 2018 à 18:59 +0100, Philip Withnall a écrit :
> How about:
> 1) Starting from 2.57.2, create release tarballs with `ninja dist`,
> but
> recommend that distributions still build with autotools (unless they
> want to dogfood with Meson early).
> 2) From 2.57.3, switch to recommending that distributions build with
> Meson.

Yeah, why not, let's start it slow. What I like with that step is we
can easily roll new tarballs with "make distcheck" if packagers have
any issues.

Btw, when is 2.58.0 due? And how many dev release do we plan in
between?

> 3) Starting from 2.59.0 (the actual start of next dev cycle), drop
> autotools completely; assuming that steps 1 and 2 have gone OK.

Of course, each step is conditional to the previous going fine.

> I want to make sure that distributions only start building GLib using
> Meson for their unstable/development releases, rather than for stable
> releases. There have only recently been bugs about code which was
> compiled with autotools not being built with Meson (the FAM file
> monitor comes to mind), which doesn’t give me enough confidence to
> jump
> to recommending building with Meson right yet.

+1

> BTW, why are you recommending 0.46.1? The dependency in our top-level
> meson.build is currently 0.46.0.

Because 0.46.1 is what we have in our CIs, the .1 is only for bug
fixing.

Regards,
Xavier Claessens.