On Wed, 2021-05-05 at 15:07 -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
> On Wed, May 5, 2021 at 2:52 PM Richard Purdie
> <richard.pur...@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > 
> > On Wed, 2021-05-05 at 14:28 -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
> > > On Wed, May 5, 2021 at 2:09 PM Richard Purdie
> > > <richard.pur...@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > On Wed, 2021-05-05 at 20:45 +0200, Alexander Kanavin wrote:
> > > > > On Wed, 5 May 2021 at 20:05, Khem Raj <raj.k...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > > On Wed, May 5, 2021 at 8:20 AM Alexander Kanavin 
> > > > > > <alex.kana...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > This seems to be the gtk-doc successor, and gnome
> > > > > > > projects such as pango and gdk-pixbuf have started
> > > > > > > transitioning to it.
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > going through
> > > > > > https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gi-docgen#disclaimer
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > it seems that its still under development and not declared stable, 
> > > > > > so
> > > > > > I am wary of the churn it will cause.
> > > > > > I would prefer to wait until at least its declared prime time for
> > > > > > system wide inclusion.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > It is only built if you enable api-documentation, and even then used 
> > > > > only
> > > > > in pango and gdk-pixbuf. I'd say it's fairly well contained.
> > > > 
> > > > I did also have a quick chat with friends in that community and their 
> > > > advice
> > > > was that it was ok to switch now FWIW...
> > > 
> > > ok, that helps, perhaps they can reflect this assertion in document above?
> > > but still, depending upon abandoned packages needs to be answered by
> > > upstream IMO before we tread down this path
> > 
> > Reading that disclaimer, it seems to be saying they're making it work for 
> > gtk.
> > We're using it in the gtk related components it is being developed for so 
> > I'm
> > not sure there is an issue. What it says not to do is use it for general 
> > non-gtk
> > code. We're not using it outside gtk?
> 
> This above says
> 
> GI-DocGen is still in development. The recommended use of GI-DocGen is
> to add it as a sub-project to your Meson build system, and vendor it
> when releasing dist archives.
> 
> we are trying to use it in system mode and not vendored along with
> packages which need it. Perhaps I am misunderstanding?

Effectively we are vendoring it since only things with a dependency on it will 
see it
and we're only depending on it from things which it is intended for. It isn't 
like 
we're making it a system wide development tool.

Cheers,

Richard

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