<div dir="auto"><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Wed., 28 Nov. 2018, 03:06 Matt Turner <<a href="mailto:mattst88@gmail.com">mattst88@gmail.com</a> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 1:13 AM Timo Aaltonen <<a href="mailto:tjaalton@ubuntu.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">tjaalton@ubuntu.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> On 17.11.2018 6.04, Dylan Baker wrote:<br>
> > Quoting Dylan Baker (2018-09-17 09:44:07)<br>
> >> I feel like for !windows meson is in good enough shape at this point that we<br>
> >> can start having the discussion about deleting the autotools build. So, is there<br>
> >> anything left that autotools can do that meson cannot (that we actually want to<br>
> >> implement)? And, what is a reasonable time-table to remove the autotools build?<br>
> >> I think we could reasonably remove it as soon as 18.3 if others felt confident<br>
> >> that it would work for them.<br>
> >><br>
> >> Dylan<br>
> ><br>
> > Okay, time for an update on things and a chance to talk about what else we need.<br>
> ><br>
> > Support for llvm-config (and any binary, actually) overriding has landed in<br>
> > meson, and will be present in the 0.49.0 release, which is due out December 9th.<br>
><br>
> Hi, just a note that Ubuntu 18.04 LTS ships with meson 0.45.1 and will<br>
> get Mesa backports up until and including 20.0.x, so I wonder how<br>
> complex these required new features in meson are to be backported, or<br>
> perhaps easily worked around? Backporting a whole new version of meson<br>
> might not happen..<br>
<br>
I understand the LTS concept, but what's the value in never upgrading<br>
something like a build tool like Meson? Yeah, new versions give a<br>
possibility of regressions, but with something evolving as quickly as<br>
Meson the version available in April 2018 becomes less useful for its<br>
intended purpose with each passing month...<br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Is meson guaranteeing backwards compatibility? Will meson in 2 years build a package built with meson now?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">If I have mesa and another package using meson 0.48, and I update meson to 0.52 will the other package still rebuild fine for things like security updates?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Dave.</div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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