Re: Good compile: Solved: Meson config failure (sort of)

Peter Bloomfield <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.apps.balsa
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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Hi Jack:

On 09/19/2017 07:59:23 PM Tue, Jack wrote:
> On 2017.09.19 19:29, Jack wrote:
>> On 2017.09.19 18:45, Jack wrote:
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>> wiht-gpgme does not list "Possible Values" but does give the options under the Description.  I was using true or false, both of which failed as above.  Using "yes" worked just find.
>> 
> ninja build succeeded, and it runs.  I also noticed the copyright in the Balsa/About dialog is still 2016.  (There are lots of old copyright dates if you just do a "grep -ir copyright *" in the source directory.  Maybe I'll put together a proposed patch to update them.)

Thanks for testing the meson build! I'm sorry you got burned by the 'yes'/'true' thing--I did too!

The current version is really a work-in-progress. I kept everything very close to the autotools version, so that I could easily compare the meson files with the autotools versions. So I kept yes|no|path for the options that allow specifying a path. If you look at meson_options.txt, you'll see that some options are boolean, with true|false values, and some are strings, with yes|no|path values. I should change those to true|false|path form, to avoid the issues that you and I faced!

The meson options should probably also be renamed. I understand that the with- and enable- prefixes of the autotools options are disparaged; options should be structured so that the '-Doption=value' configure syntax is as user-friendly as possible.

So, more changes are to be expected--thanks again for testing, and please continue to comment on the experience!

Peter
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