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

[Ilia Mirkin]

On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 11:12 AM Matt Turner <mattst88 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Regardless of all of that, what you're suggesting is only marking
> autotools as deprecated (i.e., this patch) after all known problems
> with the Meson build are fixed. At that point in 3 months down the
> line if we get another bug report from a user that only learned of
> Meson from this patch, you're going to advocate for keeping autotools
> for another release. Rinse, repeat.

It's a multi-step process.

>
> We're simply trying to get the feedback from users sooner. And the
> cost to you is very small: Use an extra flag. It's not a burden.

Before the community is happy? Premature. The way you build consensus
for a new thing is not by shooting the old thing in the foot. That
just encourages me to pick up a shotgun too.

You want something in the final banner that configure prints out about
suggesting users try out meson? Fine by me.

  -ilia