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

[Ilia Mirkin]

On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 9:37 AM Gert Wollny <gw.fossdev at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello Stuart,
>
> Am Donnerstag, den 20.12.2018, 13:40 +1100 schrieb 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.
>
> I would agree to that, at least it would bring us forward to give a
> proper warning to users before autotools is deleted. If, you Ilia could
>  agree to such an approach I would propose a new patch,

This would again punish users for using the thing that works for everyone.

A banner at the bottom (or top, whichever you think is more visible)
of the thing that configure prints at the end saying effectively "hey,
btw, check out meson, send feedback to mesa-dev" but perhaps in a few
more words/details would seem appropriate.

  -ilia