[Spice-devel] [PATCH spice-gtk 0/2] Drop autotools

[Victor Toso]

Hi,

On Tue, Jul 09, 2019 at 07:47:18AM -0400, Frediano Ziglio wrote:
> > 
> > On 7/8/19 3:00 PM, Frediano Ziglio wrote:
> > > This series is from Marc-André, I just rebased it on current master.
> > > Not much left of the original series.
> > > I think it's time to get back to it.
> > 
> > 
> > Does meson work well for mingw-spice-gtk ?

It should, note tha mingw64-filesystem-106 provides mingw64-meson

    (wingsuit) spice-gtk (master 9a6ffbac) $ dnf whatprovides mingw64-meson
    Last metadata expiration check: 6:36:54 ago on Mon 08 Jul 2019 13:36:17 CEST.
    mingw64-filesystem-106-1.fc30.noarch : MinGW cross compiler base filesystem and environment for the win64 target
    Repo        : fedora
    Matched from:
    Filename    : /usr/bin/mingw64-meson


> > 
> > I think a safer path is to make a release with Meson
> > before removing autotools.

I had that in mind with 0.37 release o/

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/spice/spice-gtk/-/tags/v0.37

> > 
> > Uri.
> > 
> 
> We had windows in CI and Marc-andre is using Meson for Fedora.
> Victor, as far as I know, managed to do a package using Meson.
> We could rollback if needed but we tested it in different ways.
> RHEL 7 has Meson packages needed (although I don't remember if
> this was tested).

So far, I think this should be fine. Lots of GNOME projects are under
meson  only which means, I expect high compatibility with newer systems

Cheers,
Victor
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