[Spice-devel] [PATCH spice-server 1/2] Bump meson requirement to 0.47.2

[Eduardo Lima (Etrunko)]

On 9/26/18 6:48 AM, Christophe Fergeau wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 10:50:26AM +0200, Victor Toso wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 10:25:56AM +0200, Christophe Fergeau wrote:
>>> NB: The newer meson we require, the harder it will be to say "ok, from
>>> now on, we'll be switching to building with meson by default".
>>
>> What would mean switching to it by default? Removing autotools?
>>
>> I agree that we should be careful on bumping it too much (I see
>> several projects in GNOME using even unreleased versions
>> sometimes!!!)
>>
>> Still, seems that the last release was 0.48 and 0.47.2 is in
>> Fedora 28 even so I think it is fine..
>>
>>     https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/?packages=meson
> 
> I was not exactly objecting to that specific change, I only used it as
> an opportunity to note that if our long term plan is to switch to meson
> by default, we cannot track latest meson versions too closely, and that
> it's something to have in mind every time we change the meson minimal
> version requirement.

I don't see any reason for bumping it to a major version anytime soon,
other than when they fix the distribution of generated files. As Victor
mentioned, it is a good thing that many GNOME projects are moving to
meson, so we might get the update in downstream distros for free at some
point.

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Eduardo de Barros Lima (Etrunko)
Software Engineer - RedHat
etrunko at redhat.com