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

[Ilia Mirkin]

On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 10:25 AM Matt Turner <mattst88 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 8:06 AM Ilia Mirkin <imirkin at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 1:01 AM Matt Turner <mattst88 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > WTF would you have us do?
> >
> > Same thing as for any change with an impact this wide --
> >
> > 1. Identify stakeholders. In this case, probably the sub-project
> > maintainers, major contributors, and a smattering of distro
> > maintainers.
> > 2. Make them happy, or at least get them, as a group, to agree that
> > it's "good enough".
>
> So we're trying to get better coverage than what you're suggesting.
>
> > 3. Apply.
> >
> > This is the point at which you can make autotools less visible. We're
> > not at that point yet.
>
> Ilia, it's an extra flag. I think you'll survive.

It's an advertising strategy for meson (hello world, check this out,
it's going to be the default soon). It can be done at the final stage.
We're not at that stage.

We're at the stage of "hello community, we'd like to replace
autotools", and the community coming back to you with feedback.

  -ilia