Hi Pavel, > But when you use autotools for extensions, then you still should to maintain > it.
True, but the problem can be decomposed into two parts - maintaining for the core and maintaining for the extensions. At least core developers won't have to check if another patch compiles with Autotools. I'm not certain what to do with the extensions. It seems that as long as we maintain Autotools the authors will have little interest in switching to Meson (or other build system - TimescaleDB for instance uses CMake; many modern extensions seem to be written in Rust with its own build system). Apparently we will have to start showing warnings at some point, and then finally drop Autotools. Unless we want to maintain it forever. This being said, I didn't investigate how much effort it will take to keep maintaining Autotools for extensions. -- Best regards, Aleksander Alekseev
