On Mon, 2018-12-17 at 19:51 +0100, Bas Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 6:33 PM Juan A. Suarez Romero > <jasua...@igalia.com> wrote: > > > > On Mon, 2018-12-03 at 10:21 +0000, Eric Engestrom wrote: > > > Cc: Emil Velikov <emil.l.veli...@gmail.com> > > > Cc: Andres Gomez <ago...@igalia.com> > > > Cc: Juan A. Suarez Romero <jasua...@igalia.com> > > > Cc: Dylan Baker <dy...@pnwbakers.com> > > > Signed-off-by: Eric Engestrom <eric.engest...@intel.com> > > > --- > > > This patch depends on the releasing procedure in docs/releasing.html to > > > be updated to not rely on autotools anymore. > > > > > > I think our release managers (cc'ed) should work together and figure out > > > the procedure they want to go by; only once that's done can we delete > > > these 200+ files and 14k+ lines :) > > > > > > I'll let others to talk. But my preference would be to land this for next > > 19.0 > > branchpoint, just a couple of days before the branchpoint, so 19.0.x > > releases > > get rid of autotools. > > > > This way we have time to fix any remaining issue, and make like easier for > > those > > in charge of 18.3.x releases, which I think should support autotools until > > the > > end of its life. > > Can I suggest the inverse, pushing this long before any branchpoint? > > As with any migration, users only start using when you force them too, > and that means a bunch of non-working usecases are going to be > detected once this patch is pushed and some more people are forced to > it. Sure, the last call discussion served to tease some of these out, > but I expect even more will turn up if you submit this. > > Doing this far before the branchpoint gives more time to fix them.
FWIW, I agree with Bas here. Better to push this long before any branchpoint. I don't foresee many (if any) backports would be needed during a stable cycle because of problems in the removed autotools files and, if fixes are needed for meson, they are welcome. -- Br, Andres _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev
