[Mesa-dev] last call for autotools

[Matt Turner]

On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 4:12 AM Gert Wollny <gw.fossdev at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

It's because the objective is to have as few build systems as
necessary. This is an obvious first step and has been a stated goal
for more than a year. I'm surprised that you're surprised.

Let's just make an external contrib repo and keep all the autotools
files there. Then Emil and company can continue having fun maintaining
autotools and all you'll need to do is rsync into the Mesa repo to use
autotools.