Hello all, Am Donnerstag, den 29.11.2018, 17:44 +0000 schrieb Emil Velikov: > Hi all, > > I can see why people may opt to not use or maintain the autotools > build. Although I would kindly ask that we do not remove it just yet.
I second that, I think the process of removing autotools should be a two-step procedure. i.e. prior to ripping autotools support out there should be one or two releases that deprecates it, e.g. by changing configure that it (1) needs an extra flag to run, and (2) when run without this flag it would just print a message about the meson build system, the deprecation of autotools (making it clear when it will be removed), and information how to still run autotools with this extra flag. If qwe A rationale is that with a release that only has mesa there is a high chance that people not directly involved with the project, and that don't follow git but only use the releases hit corner cases when building mesa that we or maintainers for distributions might not be aware of. Still having something around that is known to work would be good for them, so they can report a bug against the meson build system and still get their work done by easily switching to the autotools for the time being. Best, Gert _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev
