[Spice-devel] [PATCH spice-gtk 04/12] Drop autotools

[Christophe Fergeau]

On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 06:39:09AM -0500, Frediano Ziglio wrote:
> Yes, agreed, at the moment the "ninja dist" does not work much,
> just try a git clone + meson + ninja build, it fails, you have
> to apply some workaround due to Meson bug with it.
> Also not sure how many additional dependencies we need, they
> should at least be documented and surely they will require some
> packages (RPM spec or similar) changes, better to have these
> stuff in place.
> 
> Really before removing autoconf I want:
> 1- Meson with the same level of features;
> 2- then a release;
> 3- then making sure the releases we support can use Meson (that
>    is RHEL7 for example, here workaround like above are accepted
>    but must be implemented);

I'd go as far as switching the fedora package to use meson on all
supported branches to get wider testing. And yes, make sure scratch
builds on el7/el8 are possible. For other distros, ideally someone would
check too, otherwise we'll just have to take a look at the version of
meson that they ship.

Christophe
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