Re: [PATCH spice-gtk 04/12] Drop autotools

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Hi

On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 10:08 AM Victor Toso <victortoso@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, Feb 09, 2019 at 11:49:35AM +0100, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 9:51 PM Jonathon Jongsma <jjongsma@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > I do not always update my laptop to the latest release
> > > immediately. For example, I'm still running Fedora 28 on my
> > > laptop at the moment, which
> >
> > Wouldn't "pip3 install --user meson" work? Even under old
> > distros?
>
> I consider that a workaround. I prefer that we say, 'yeah, we
> don't support F28 anymore' rather than using different package
> managers.

Ok, that's a kind of philosophical question to me.

>
> > > as far as I know does not have a new enough version of meson to build
> > > git master. 'Backporting' doesn't solve that problem.
> >
> > I meant backporting the fixes in a stable branch (not the
> > build-sys)
> >
> > (ping for review of the rest of the series)
>
> I'm all in for meson-only but we should at least have a release
> without fixes in meson files and without bumping it so much.

I understand it can be annoying to bump meson. I wonder if they have a
solution to this problem (submodule? ship generated files in tarball?)

>
> I'd be happy to review a patch series with fixes only, without
> dropping autotools, for now.

ok, thanks


-- 
Marc-André Lureau
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