> On 1 Oct 2018, at 09:20, Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 06:23:48PM +0200, Christophe de Dinechin wrote: >>>>> On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 2:19 PM Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>>>> We just added meson support to spice/spice-gtk, I'd rather we don't add >>>>>> a 3rd way to build spice, 2 is already error-prone enough :) >> >> I raised the top-level build issue back in Brno in Oct 2017 or so. >> AFAICT, this is what prompted the investigation into Meson. > > For me, the main goal of Meson was to switch to something more > modern/much faster than the autotools-based build system. Maybe that was your objective. That was certainly not mine when I brought up the topic. The reason I brought up the build system in Brno in 2017 was related to finding it unsafe / uneasy to make changes in protocol or common. I suggested a solution that also addressed the build speed issue. I’m positive we did discuss top-level builds back then. I remember a discussion notably with Eduardo on whether to use subdirectories of a large repo, subtrees or submodules (which had been my choice for my experiment, but Eduardo did not like it though I don’t recall why). > I think > Eduardo also experimented with getting the kind of builds you described > with Meson, but I'm not sure this was his main motive for working on the > Meson patches. > > Christophe > _______________________________________________ > Spice-devel mailing list > Spice-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel _______________________________________________ Spice-devel mailing list Spice-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel