On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 11:32 AM Matt Turner <matts...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 4:12 AM Gert Wollny <gw.foss...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I second that, I voiced my concerns in a former thread, especially that > > so far this upcoming change has not been officially announced in the > > release notes or on mesa-user, and that I don't understand why it is so > > urgent to drop autotools when there is still someone who offers to > > maintain it and some who prefer to use it. > > It's because the objective is to have as few build systems as > necessary. This is an obvious first step and has been a stated goal > for more than a year. I'm surprised that you're surprised.
A laudable goal, but if it's not ready, it's not ready. > > Let's just make an external contrib repo and keep all the autotools > files there. Then Emil and company can continue having fun maintaining > autotools and all you'll need to do is rsync into the Mesa repo to use > autotools. Seems like a bigger turn off for casual developers that are having trouble with meson. At this point it seems like we have a few enthusiastic supporters, and a bunch of people begrudgingly going along with it despite having limitations to their work flow. Every conversion seems to go this way. It's not like these are new sentiments. Alex _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev
