[Mesa-dev] [PATCH] autotools: Deprecate the use of autotools

[Ilia Mirkin]

On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 6:40 PM Gert Wollny <gw.fossdev at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Ilia,
>
> Am Sonntag, den 16.12.2018, 12:40 -0500 schrieb Ilia Mirkin:
> > On Sun, Dec 16, 2018 at 6:24 AM Gert Wollny <gw.fossdev at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > Since Meson will eventually be the only build system deprecate
> > > autotools
> > > now. It can still be used by invoking configure with the flag
> > >   --enable-autotools
> > >
>
> [...]
> > If the concern is that there are 2 build systems and it's unclear
> > which to use, I'd definitely err on the side of making meson the one
> > requiring extra hoops to jump through.
> >
>
> I think Jason already pointed out that this patch doesn't remove
> anything. If you have followed the threads you've seen that I'm also
> not exactly pushing for removing autotools, but I think since it is
> going to happen anyway, it would be best to give everyone a little more
> incentive to try out meson so that hopefully all the remaining issue
> are brought up and can be fixed, before autotools is removed in a
> stable release.

Yeah, I totally see that you're not removing autotools with this
patch. I do see that you're making it harder to use though (i.e.
indicating to users that it's not the #1 way to do things). This
should only be done when it's ready to be deprecated. The argument
I've been making is that it's not. I've outlined some things that I
think are important to fix in meson in another thread.

Cheers,

  -ilia