[Mesa-dev] last call for autotools

[Henri Verbeet]

On Fri, 14 Dec 2018 at 15:42, Gert Wollny <gw.fossdev at gmail.com> wrote:
> Am Freitag, den 14.12.2018, 01:19 -0500 schrieb Ilia Mirkin:
> > meson is not at a point where it Just Works. It ... sometimes works.
> > The fact that everyone has scripts which wrap meson is a symptom of
> > that. I don't feel good about dumping the system that everyone (and I
> > don't just mean people on this list -- I mean the wider open source
> > community as well) knows how to use and has worked reliably for years
> > (decades, really) to be replaced by a system that everyone is having
> > problems with (it's not just me -- others are running into trouble
> > too -- just look at this thread). It's just not ready yet.
>
> I second that, I voiced my concerns in a former thread, especially that
> so far this upcoming change has not been officially announced in the
> release notes or on mesa-user, and that I don't understand why it is so
> urgent to drop autotools when there is still someone who offers to
> maintain it and some who prefer to use it.
>
Just to add my +1, as a user, I prefer the more mainstream build system.