On 9/26/18 6:48 AM, Christophe Fergeau wrote: > On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 10:50:26AM +0200, Victor Toso wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 10:25:56AM +0200, Christophe Fergeau wrote: >>> NB: The newer meson we require, the harder it will be to say "ok, from >>> now on, we'll be switching to building with meson by default". >> >> What would mean switching to it by default? Removing autotools? >> >> I agree that we should be careful on bumping it too much (I see >> several projects in GNOME using even unreleased versions >> sometimes!!!) >> >> Still, seems that the last release was 0.48 and 0.47.2 is in >> Fedora 28 even so I think it is fine.. >> >> https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/?packages=meson > > I was not exactly objecting to that specific change, I only used it as > an opportunity to note that if our long term plan is to switch to meson > by default, we cannot track latest meson versions too closely, and that > it's something to have in mind every time we change the meson minimal > version requirement. I don't see any reason for bumping it to a major version anytime soon, other than when they fix the distribution of generated files. As Victor mentioned, it is a good thing that many GNOME projects are moving to meson, so we might get the update in downstream distros for free at some point. -- 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