Re: Shall we keep supporting Autotools?

On 15/10/2021 16:11, Kjell Ahlstedt via gtkmm-list wrote:
>
> Glib, atk, pango and gtk4 have dropped Autotools support. They can 
> only be built with Meson. Can we drop Autotools support for libsigc++, 
> cairomm, glibmm, atkmm, pangomm, gtkmm, gtkmm-documentation and 
> libxml++? Would anyone object?
>
> I'm not sure about libxml++, because the underlying C library, 
> libxml2, can't be built with Meson.
>
>

Admittedly this is a side-issue but as someone who prefers the Visual 
C++ IDE (and IDE's in general) I've hardly ever used Autotools - but 
then again I've hardly ever used Meson either.

Initially I'd high hopes for Meson because it could (supposedly) 
generate .vcxproj files.  But back in those early days, the generated 
files were often too limited to be useful.  One big problem (back then) 
was that Meson could only generate 1 x build target - either Debug or 
Release but not both in the same project. In fact I'm not even sure if 
it could generate 32-bit and 64-bit targets in the same project.  I 
spend a lot of my time switching between the different targets so it was 
very frustrating to lose that ability.  I'd like to try Meson again but 
I'm just wondering if that limitation is still present?

John

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