[RFC libdrm 0/2] Replace the build system with meson

[Dylan Baker]

I would personally rather have scons and autotools than cmake. I've had the
misfortune of using all three, and cmake is not an improvement in my opinion.

Quoting Grazvydas Ignotas (2017-03-21 08:13:31)
> It might make sense to give more attention to cmake just because many
> mesa-related projects are already using it: llvm, piglit, vulkan
> loader and demos, mesa-demos, etc. Not sure how well it supports BSDs
> and windows, but everyone building graphics stacks or contributing to
> mesa should already be comfortable with cmake thanks to piglit and
> llvm, which might not be the case for meson.
> 
> Gražvydas
> 
> On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 4:44 PM, Jani Nikula
> <jani.nikula at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, 16 Mar 2017, Dylan Baker <dylan at pnwbakers.com> wrote:
> >> First it's written in python, [...]
> >
> > How does meson handle python 2 vs. 3? How do you avoid issues in the
> > build files wrt this? On Debian meson seems to depend on python 3, so
> > are they fully python 3?
> >
> > How does meson handle build file backwards compatibility between meson
> > versions? I don't intend to flame, but I've found for some reason many
> > python projects don't seem to take this very seriously. Either having
> > conditionals in build files to support building with several meson
> > versions or always requiring the latest and greatest version would be
> > rather annoying.
> >
> >
> > BR,
> > Jani.
> >
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> > Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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