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

[Stuart Young]

Gert/Ilia,

Could this be reduced this from an error to a warning, with the
command-line option suppressing the warning?

Perhaps as well as producing the warning, the build could sleep for say 30
seconds after producing the warning message. This would be noticeable if
you're building it yourself (which would definitely get the message out
there), but wouldn't stop automated build processes (as it's not stopping,
just sleeping).

At a later date (when meson has more exposure) then perhaps we could move
from a warning to an error.

Thoughts?


On Thu, 20 Dec 2018 at 07:37, Gert Wollny <gw.fossdev at gmail.com> wrote:

> Am Mittwoch, den 19.12.2018, 12:19 -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
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Gert Wollny <gw.fossdev at gmail.com>
> >
> > In case it's not clear from the later discussion:
> >
> > Strongly NAKed-by: Ilia Mirkin <imirkin at alum.mit.edu>
> > This should not be applied to the repository.
>
> You should probably add this to the patch proposals that want to remove
> autotools then.
>
> I'm certainly not going to push this patch with your NAK, but I'd like
> to ask you to reconsider: All this patch does is require to add  --
> enable-autotools to the configure call once - a little hickup in the
> workflow of those who do not yet use exclusively meson, but it gets the
> message out to the others that things are going to change.
>
> Best,
> Gert
>
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