On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 5:22 PM Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Meson build system is simple and quick compared to Autotools and it's > able to fully replace our Autotools usage. There are few drawbacks as > it's a fairly new build system, it requires Python 3.5 and Ninja 1.5.0, > it's still evolving and the user base is not that large and there were > some tweaks required to achieve the same functionality. > > However, there are benefits, the configure and build time is way shorter > and build definition files are more readable and easier to maintain. Hmm. I really would prefer smaller patches. - Add meson; - Drop autotools; - Change spec files; - ... I didn't go through the patch, will do that in the next days ... but a few things should be considered here: - meson >= 0.49.0 basically means the project won't be built on Debian < 10, Ubuntu < 19.04 ... which may be a problem for the project, if you're following libvirt supported distros; - please, take a look at the work done on libvirt-jenkins-ci and try to adapt this one to follow the targets we have there; - It'll force the addition of a `ninja syntax-check`, instead of having the syntax-check as part of the tests; Again, I'll carefully go through this patch in the next days. Best Regards, -- Fabiano Fidêncio -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list
