[Mesa-dev] Lets talk about autotools

[Gert Wollny]

Hello all, 

Am Donnerstag, den 29.11.2018, 17:44 +0000 schrieb Emil Velikov:
> 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.

I second that, I think the process of removing autotools should be a
two-step procedure. i.e. prior to ripping autotools support out there
should be one or two releases that deprecates it, e.g. by changing
configure that it (1) needs an extra flag to run, and (2) when run
without this flag it would just print a message about the meson build
system, the deprecation of autotools (making it clear when it will be
removed), and information how to still run autotools with this extra
flag. If qwe 

A rationale is that with a release that only has mesa there is a high
chance that people not directly involved with the project, and that
don't follow git but only use the releases hit corner cases when
building mesa that we or maintainers for distributions might not be
aware of. Still having something around that is known to work would be
good for them, so they can report a bug against the meson build system
and still get their work done by easily switching to the autotools for
the time being.

Best, 
Gert