[Mesa-dev] Lets talk about autotools

[Pekka Paalanen]

On Thu, 29 Nov 2018 17:44:47 +0000
Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I can see why people may opt to not use or maintain the autotools build.
> Although I would kindly ask that we do not remove it just yet.
> 
> In Mesa, we have different parts not used by different teams. As such
> we tend to remove stuff when nobody is around to maintain it anymore.
> 
> That said, I'm planning to continue maintaining it and would appreciate
> if we keep it in-tree.
> 
> As people may be concerned about bugreports and alike we can trivially
> add a warning (as configure is invoked) to forwards any issues to my
> email. Additionally (or alternatively) we can have an autotools bugzilla
> category with me as the default assignee.
> 
> What do you guys think?

Hi Emil,

could you explain your motivation behind keeping the autotools build
around? It seems like the points you made earlier are mooted by now.

Do you intend to remove autotools build from all CI, so that you alone
will be the lone user of it, meaning that no other developer should
care about its existence at all?

Wanting to keep it in-tree does not sound like it, but I wanted to
confirm what your expectations are from other developers.


Thanks,
pq
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