[Mesa-dev] Drop scons for 20.1?

[Jose Fonseca]

We already solved some pieces (e.g, how to consume and use Meson, while following our internal legal process required for adding new 3rd party dependencies), and figured a way to consume Meson build without having to migrate lots of internal build logic from Scons to Meson.  But other stuff just keeps getting higher priority, and we haven't fully migrated.

Please do understand, SCons just works for us.  We are making progress with Meson.  It's just not the highest priority, when time is short, it gets deferred.

I don't understand the rush.  If it was trivial and easy we'd obviously would have done it.

Jose

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From: Jason Ekstrand <jason at jlekstrand.net>
Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2020 04:15
To: Rob Clark <robdclark at gmail.com>; Kristian Høgsberg <hoegsberg at gmail.com>
Cc: mesa-dev <mesa-dev at lists.freedesktop.org>; Dylan Baker <baker.dylan.c at gmail.com>; Jose Fonseca <jfonseca at vmware.com>; Brian Paul <brianp at vmware.com>
Subject: Re: [Mesa-dev] Drop scons for 20.1?

+Jose & Brian

I'm not personally opposed but I also can't remember the last time I had to
fix the scons build. I think it's been years. Maybe that's because I don't
work on GL anymore? In any case, I don't know that it's really costing us
that much given that basically none of the drivers actually build with it.
But fat meh, I guess.

--Jason

On February 25, 2020 21:56:30 Rob Clark <robdclark at gmail.com> wrote:

> It looks like we have 4 scons build jobs in CI.. I'm not sure how much
> that costs us, but I guess those cycles could be put to better use?
> So even ignoring the developer-cycles issue (ie. someone making
> changes that effects scons build, and has to setup a scons build env
> to fix breakage of their MR) I guess there is at least an argument to
> remove scons from CI.  Whether it is worth keeping a dead build system
> after it is removed from CI is an issue that I'm ambivalent about.
>
> BR,
> -R
>
> On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 3:42 PM Kristian Høgsberg <hoegsberg at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> It's been a while since Dylan did the work to make meson support
>> Windows and there's been plenty of time to provide feedback or improve
>> argue why we still need scons. I haven't seen any such discussion and
>> I think we've waited long enough.
>>
>> Let's drop scons for the next release and move things forward?
>>
>> Kristian
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