[Mesa-dev] last call for autotools

[Ilia Mirkin]

On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 11:32 AM Matt Turner <mattst88 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.

So ... not last call for autotools? More like "railroad notification
that the train is in motion"?

This kind of talk just causes everyone to entrench into their
positions, so I'd rather avoid it. I'm not opposed to switching build
systems in principle, but the current proposal is, in my and seemingly
some other people's views, inadequate. Let's make it adequate before
dropping the thing that works for everyone.

  -ilia