On 23/03/18 07:58, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 11:51:41AM +0100, Christophe de Dinechin wrote: >> Hi Eduardo, >> >> >> Thanks for sharing. >> >> Out of curiosity, I understand why you want to add Meson, but why remove autotools right away? > > Note in particular that this will make it impossible to build on a RHEL-7 > platform, since it lacks both Meson and Python 3 in a standard install > AFAIK. > > Given there's no RHEL-8 yet and RHEL-7 is actively maintained with SPICE > bits have frequent backports & rebases, it might be a little too soon to > drop RHEL-7 by killing autotools IMHO. > You beat me to it, I was aware of not being possible to build for RHEL. Well, even for Fedora the standard packaging still don't match our requirements, so I believe it will take quite a long time to remove the autotools build for good. In the meantime we can enjoy much faster system for development. -- Eduardo de Barros Lima (Etrunko) Software Engineer - RedHat etrunko@xxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ Spice-devel mailing list Spice-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel