On Wed., 28 Nov. 2018, 03:06 Matt Turner <matts...@gmail.com wrote: > On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 1:13 AM Timo Aaltonen <tjaal...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > > > > On 17.11.2018 6.04, Dylan Baker wrote: > > > Quoting Dylan Baker (2018-09-17 09:44:07) > > >> I feel like for !windows meson is in good enough shape at this point > that we > > >> can start having the discussion about deleting the autotools build. > So, is there > > >> anything left that autotools can do that meson cannot (that we > actually want to > > >> implement)? And, what is a reasonable time-table to remove the > autotools build? > > >> I think we could reasonably remove it as soon as 18.3 if others felt > confident > > >> that it would work for them. > > >> > > >> Dylan > > > > > > Okay, time for an update on things and a chance to talk about what > else we need. > > > > > > Support for llvm-config (and any binary, actually) overriding has > landed in > > > meson, and will be present in the 0.49.0 release, which is due out > December 9th. > > > > Hi, just a note that Ubuntu 18.04 LTS ships with meson 0.45.1 and will > > get Mesa backports up until and including 20.0.x, so I wonder how > > complex these required new features in meson are to be backported, or > > perhaps easily worked around? Backporting a whole new version of meson > > might not happen.. > > I understand the LTS concept, but what's the value in never upgrading > something like a build tool like Meson? Yeah, new versions give a > possibility of regressions, but with something evolving as quickly as > Meson the version available in April 2018 becomes less useful for its > intended purpose with each passing month... >
Is meson guaranteeing backwards compatibility? Will meson in 2 years build a package built with meson now? If I have mesa and another package using meson 0.48, and I update meson to 0.52 will the other package still rebuild fine for things like security updates? Dave. > _______________________________________________ > mesa-dev mailing list > mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev >
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