Ilmari Lauhakangas kirjoitti 19.2.2020 klo 17.23:
As promised in the ESC call last week, I went and conducted interviews
with people who are/were involved in migrating the build systems of big
FOSS projects from Autotools to Meson.
The compiled interviews are available as an 18 page document in .odt and
.pdf formats here:
https://nextcloud.documentfoundation.org/apps/files/?dir=/Shared/Common/Meson%20evaluation&fileid=275581
There is also a short document collecting benefits and concerns from the
perspective of LibreOffice.
If someone is interested in the documents, but is unable to access TDF
Nextcloud, please contact me in private.
It seems obvious that our build system is in a way better shape than the
ones these interviewees migrated away from. We have been blessed with
some very diligent build system hackers. Yet, some day we have to fly
out of the Autotools nest.
It would be nice to make a decision on this topic at the next ESC call.
I don't care, if it is a decision to not make a decision. This sort of
an undecision should come with a clear condition on getting back to the
topic. Like:
"We can't decide on this until my concerns have been addressed"
"We can't decide on this, because I want to first evaluate other build
systems"
The latter reason should come with a promised timeframe.
Ilmari
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