[Mesa-dev] [PATCH] Update the documentation for meson

[Emil Velikov]

On 1 March 2018 at 19:34, Dylan Baker <dylan at pnwbakers.com> wrote:
> Meson is pretty well tested and works in most configurations now, so we
> can remove the warning about it being unsuited for actual use.
>
> It's also worth documenting that meson 0.42.0 or greater is required.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dylan Baker <dylan.c.baker at intel.com>
> ---
>  docs/meson.html | 34 +++++++++++++++++++++-------------
>  1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/docs/meson.html b/docs/meson.html
> index 77f89b0c6c7..782cc198649 100644
> --- a/docs/meson.html
> +++ b/docs/meson.html
> @@ -18,11 +18,20 @@
>
>  <h2 id="basic">1. Basic Usage</h2>
>
> -<p><strong>The Meson build system for Mesa is still under active development,
> -and should not be used in production environments.</strong></p>
> +<p><strong>The Meson build system is generally considered stable and ready
> +for production</strong></p>
>
> -<p>The meson build is currently only tested on linux, and is known to not work
> -on macOS, Windows, and haiku. This will be fixed.</p>
> +<p>The meson build is currently known to work on Linux, macOS, Cygwin, Haiku,
> +FreeBSD, DragonflyBSD, and NetBSD, it is believed to work on OpenBSD.</p>
> +
Did you test all of these platforms - in particular Cygwin and BSDs?

I'd use something like - "has been tested on X and should work with B".

-Emil