[Mesa-dev] last call for autotools

[Emil Velikov]

On Tue, 11 Dec 2018 at 18:18, Eric Anholt <eric at anholt.net> wrote:
>
> Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > On Mon, 10 Dec 2018 at 23:11, Dylan Baker <dylan at pnwbakers.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Meson 0.49.0 has been out for a couple of days now, and I'd like to make the
> >> final call for autotools. My patch is so massive that it's a huge pain to send
> >> to the list, the latest versions is here:
> >> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/dbaker/mesa/commits/delete-autotools
> >>
> > Can you split this up a bit? I'm mostly conserved about a couple of things:
> > - we're loosing multiple testing permutations with Travis - there's no
> > meson equivalent
> > - needed/missing bits are impossible to spot as-is
> >
> > Personally, I'd do something like:
> >  - move .travis autotools permutations to meson
> >  - docs changes
> >  - rm Makefile{.*,}.am autogen.sh and configure.ac
> >  - rm Makefile.sources
> >  - .gitignore
>
> I don't think we should block on anything related to travis at this
> point.  I wrote it initially hoping it would let us prevent build
> breakages.  Instead, whenever I try to use travis to prevent build
> breakage, I find that travis has already been broken for a while.
>
You must be really unlucky.

> The CI needs to be integrated with our actual repository host, or it
> doesn't work.  We should just delete .travis.yml and push the gitlab
> stuff forward instead.

If we have anything better in place (say gitlab CI/other) - sure.
Removing something without a replacement in place is quite meh.
That said, I think we agree that this is a topic for another day.

HTH
-Emil