[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 113121] Switch build system to meson or cmake

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=113121

--- Comment #4 from Adolfo Jayme <fitojb at ubuntu.com> ---
>From ESC meeting minutes, 2020-02-13 [1]:

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* Meson build system experiments by Jussi Pakkanen (Ilmari)
    + Meson creator Jussi has done preliminary feasibility evaluation for free
    +
https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2020/02/building-very-small-subset-of.html
    +
https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2020/02/trying-to-build-slightly-larger-slice.html
    + if there is interest in principle, we can seek independent funding for a
prototype
    + prototype would make it easier to evaluate benefits
    + Ilmari’s perspective: want to make the codebase more approachable for
newcomers

    + understand that we don’t want to drop something that works already
(Ilmari)
    + not yet asking for a decision, but please think about this
    + what problem does this solve? (Kendy)
      + usually LO breaks the tools
    + GNOME / wayland is moving to this from autotools (Ilmari)
    + sitting on the fence (Thorsten)
      + significant cost to migrate to anything
      + there are load of unsolved problems with the build system, though
    + would not be great to pay some external developers to do the migration
and then let us maintain it (Stephan)
      + agreed (Kendy, Cloph)
    + better spend funding money elsewhere (Kendy)
      + e.g. external libs that can’t build in parallel
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 [1]:
https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2020-February/084440.html

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