[fprint] libfprint ported to Meson and gtk-doc

[Igor Filatov]

> From the user's perspective, users shouldn't have to build their own
> system libraries. From the developers point-of-view, the rules are
> actually readable, understandable, and it takes as long to build
> libfprint and the docs as it did just running configure. So I'm fine
> with the drawbacks :)

But they actually do it sometimes :) I understand there's no going back,
which is ok. Just saying that build and install docs would be a welcome
addition to the docs. Willing to help with it if needed.

On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 6:51 AM Bastien Nocera <hadess at hadess.net> wrote:

> On Thu, 2018-05-17 at 23:40 +0300, Igor Filatov wrote:
> > Mine seems ok. The docs could use a short build&install guide though.
> > I've updated the readme in my
> > repo https://github.com/iafilatov/libfprint. Meson is great but from
> > a user's perspective it doesn't beat `./configure && make`.
>
> From the user's perspective, users shouldn't have to build their own
> system libraries. From the developers point-of-view, the rules are
> actually readable, understandable, and it takes as long to build
> libfprint and the docs as it did just running configure. So I'm fine
> with the drawbacks :)
>
> >  And actually there's quite a few ones who want to try it out but
> > don't have that much experience with build systems.
>
> If anyone has problems updating the Makefile.am/configure.ac rules for
> their WIP drivers, let me know.
>
> FWIW, unless additional files or libraries are needed, you'd only need
> to add the driver name to "all_drivers" in the top-level meson.build,
> and add a conditional in the "foreach driver: drivers" loop in
> libfprint/meson.build.
>
> > I'd like to follow the updates in the new repo but it won't let me
> > sign in. Says my account is blocked...
>
> There's no new repo, it's not migrated yet.
>
> > On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 7:01 PM Bastien Nocera <hadess at hadess.net>
> > wrote:
> > > Hello all,
> > >
> > > libfprint has been ported to Meson[1] (from autotools) and gtk-doc
> > > (from Doxygen) in git. This means that building libfprint is now
> > > much
> > > much faster, and the API documentation is now clearer.
> > >
> > > It would be great if driver authors could update their development
> > > branches and report any problems.
> > >
> > > Let me know if you run into any problems building the library, or
> > > spot
> > > any errors in the documentation.
> > >
> > > Other short-term plans include migrating libfprint and fprintd to
> > > freedesktop.org's gitlab instance[2], giving the website/wiki a
> > > refresh, and writing a guide to writing new drivers.
> > >
> > > Cheers
> > >
> > > [1]: http://mesonbuild.com/
> > > [2]: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/freedesktop/freedesktop/issues/
> > > 21
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