Re: Migration from autotools to meson

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On Tue, Apr 09, 2024 at 10:20:49PM -0700, Brian Tarricone wrote:
> Hi all,
>=20
> There's been some discussion over on GitLab[0] about migrating to meson. =
 The current feeling is that it should be all-or-nothing for Xfce 4.20, at =
least for the core components (those under 'xfce/' on GitLab), so initially=
 the autotools files would not be removed, at least until all components ar=
e migrated.  I'm very interested in getting this done, and am fine working =
on the shared components, and any component where the maintainer both doesn=
't have the time, and doesn't care/want to do it themselves.
>=20
> Next is packaging; I know we have a bunch of distro packagers on the list=
 here.  Do y'all have any concerns with this?  I was digging through the Me=
son documentation, and AFAICT the minimum Meson version we would need is 0.=
54.0 (which is four years old, and, for reference, both Debian stable and o=
ldstable, as well as the current Ubuntu LTS release, have newer versions).

Not a problem at all in Fedora land... even rhel9 has 0.63.3.

kevin

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