Re: ***UNCHECKED*** Meson and Autotools, or only Meson?

Pavlo Solntsev via gtkmm-list <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.gtkmm
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On Wed, 2020-03-25 at 18:49 +0100, Kjell Ahlstedt via gtkmm-list wrote:
> These *mm packages can now be built either with Meson or with
> Autotools:
> 
> mm-common
> libsigc++-2.0, libsigc++-3.0
> glibmm-2.4, glibmm-2.66
> pangomm-1.4, pangomm-2.44
> (gtkmm-documentation-3,) gtkmm-documentation-4
> I've put gtkmm-documentation-3 in parentheses because there is no
> released tarball with Meson support, it's only in the git repo.

How about ninja dist?
https://mesonbuild.com/Creating-releases.html

> 
> Some underlying C packages, such as glib and gtk4, have dropped
> Autotools support. Shall we do the same, where possible?
> 
Make sure meson works in parallel with autotools and eventually drop
the support. 

> I think at least one released tarball must contain both Meson support
> and Autotools support before Autotools support can be dropped, or
> else https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-build-meta/ will have
> problems. Correct me, if I'm wrong here.
> 
> At the moment all of the listed packages use Meson when they are
> built with jhbuild, but only mm-common does so when it's built with
> gnome-build-meta.
> 
> Regards
> Kjell
> 
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