[Mesa-dev] Lets talk about autotools

[Timo Aaltonen]

On 27.11.2018 19.05, Matt Turner wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 1:13 AM Timo Aaltonen <tjaalton at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 17.11.2018 6.04, Dylan Baker wrote:
>>> Quoting Dylan Baker (2018-09-17 09:44:07)
>>>> I feel like for !windows meson is in good enough shape at this point that we
>>>> can start having the discussion about deleting the autotools build. So, is there
>>>> anything left that autotools can do that meson cannot (that we actually want to
>>>> implement)? And, what is a reasonable time-table to remove the autotools build?
>>>> I think we could reasonably remove it as soon as 18.3 if others felt confident
>>>> that it would work for them.
>>>>
>>>> Dylan
>>>
>>> Okay, time for an update on things and a chance to talk about what else we need.
>>>
>>> Support for llvm-config (and any binary, actually) overriding has landed in
>>> meson, and will be present in the 0.49.0 release, which is due out December 9th.
>>
>> Hi, just a note that Ubuntu 18.04 LTS ships with meson 0.45.1 and will
>> get Mesa backports up until and including 20.0.x, so I wonder how
>> complex these required new features in meson are to be backported, or
>> perhaps easily worked around? Backporting a whole new version of meson
>> might not happen..
> 
> I understand the LTS concept, but what's the value in never upgrading
> something like a build tool like Meson? Yeah, new versions give a
> possibility of regressions, but with something evolving as quickly as
> Meson the version available in April 2018 becomes less useful for its
> intended purpose with each passing month...

Fair enough, I'll just package a newer, renamed meson for mesa if necessary.


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