[Mesa-dev] [PATCH] docs: add documentation for building with meson

[Emil Velikov]

On 18 October 2017 at 18:27, Dylan Baker <dylan at pnwbakers.com> wrote:

>> > +<p>Note that in meson this defaults to "debug", and  not setting it to
>> > +"release" will yield non-optimal performance and binary size</p>
>> Ouch, can we change that?
>
> When I did an informal poll in the Intel cube the universal consensus was that
> defaulting to debug was a feature. If the wider community disagrees, yes, it can be
> changed.
>
The intent behind is amazing, but it subtly changes behaviour over any
of the existing build systems.

Past experience suggests that listing such changes in release
notes/elsewhere people do miss it.
Thus as users get annoyed with the optimised build there'll be some
bad noise/publicity.

Just something to keep in mind.

> I'll fix up the other stuff too.
>
Great thanks.

-Emil