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

[Frediano Ziglio]

> 
> From: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau at redhat.com>
> 
> Maintaining 1 build system is hard. Maintaining 2 is even harder.
> 
> It seems the meson build system is now in good shape to replace
> autotools. Like many desktop projects, let's move entirely to meson
> and drop autotools support.
> 
> Known changes:
> - no git version: a following patch will add it back in a limited form
> - generating changelog & thanks files in the dist tarball. This is not
>   strictly required, and can be added back later.
> - generated files are not included in the dist tarball. In some ways,
>   this can be considered a good thing. Since code generation is done
>   with python, and meson requires python anyway, this is not an issue.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau at redhat.com>

Patience.

It's IMO too early, we are still fixing bugs on Meson build, distros
we support still hasn't the version we need packaged and we are
already removing it?

Christophe already mentioned that we should have not bumped Meson
requirements that much.

Keep it in some branch but for the moment I would say no.

Frediano