It will build fine, only the translations will not be merged back to the produced desktop file. Solution would be porting the autotools code from intltool to vanilla gettext (see https://wiki.gnome.org/Initiatives/GnomeGoals/GettextMigration) but autotools removal will be easier. On Mon, 9 Jul, 2018 at 11:04 PM, Felipe Sateler <fsateler at gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Mon, Jul 9, 2018 at 1:31 PM Jan Tojnar <jtojnar at gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Meson is much nicer than autotools, see >> https://wiki.gnome.org/Initiatives/GnomeGoals/MesonPorting. >> >> With this patch, you can invoke >> >> meson build -Ddocs=true >> ninja -C build >> sudo ninja -C build install >> >> to compile and install the package. > > The .desktop file changes would break the autotools build, wouldn't > it?. If a port to meson is desired (I'm not a maintainer, although > this gets a +1 from me), then either a workaround should be found, or > autotools be dropped at the same time. > > -- > > Saludos, > Felipe Sateler
