Re: Meson and Autotools, or only Meson?

Kjell Ahlstedt via gtkmm-list <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.gtkmm
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2020-03-26 11:01, Murray Cumming wrote:
> On Thu, 2020-03-26 at 09:42 +0100, Kjell Ahlstedt wrote:
>>   warnings=fatal is the default. I
>> have tried to make the "warnings" option equal to the Autotools
>> equivalent, except that "fatal" is the default.
> I wonder if that's wise. It will lead to unnecessary build breakage,
> for instance for packagers, when they upgrade compilers or
> dependencies. If this remains the default, we might need to give people
> obvious instructions about how to build more forgivingly.
I have changed the default warning level to /min/, except when a tarball 
is created and tested. (/ninja dist/ corresponds to /make distcheck/.) 
That's how autotools builds work.
>
>> Gtkmm itself can't be built with Meson yet. That's several months
>> ahead, I think.
> You might consider, if you like, not removing autotools from the other
> builds until gtkmm uses Meson, if you remove autotools. That would be a
> simpler story.
>
>
Other comments have made me believe that we ought to keep the autotools 
support until most common distros contain mm-common 1.0.0 or higher. 
(Building with meson in maintainer mode requires mm-common >= 1.0.0.)

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