Proposal: Recommend meson for glib 2.58.0

2018-06-01 Thread xclaesse
Hi, Things are looking pretty well with meson in GLib master. We have CI working for pretty much all interesting platforms (more to come) and there are only a few remaining issues with "Meson" tag in gitlab[1]. I think the longer we keep 2 build systems, the more time we waste on useless tasks. S

Re: Proposal: Recommend meson for glib 2.58.0

2018-06-01 Thread Christian Hergert
On 06/01/2018 08:10 AM, xclae...@gmail.com wrote: > Disclaimer: I'm not a GLib maintainer so this email is only about > opening the discussion. There is no decision made yet. > > Opinions? I think the risk area is python3 support on some commercially supported distributions. Although, that is pro

Re: Proposal: Recommend meson for glib 2.58.0

2018-06-01 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
With Python 2.x getting EOL in less than 2 years, I suspect that commercial distros will need to provide Python 3 pretty quickly. Ciao, Emmanuele. On Fri, 1 Jun 2018 at 21:10, Christian Hergert wrote: > On 06/01/2018 08:10 AM, xclae...@gmail.com wrote: > > Disclaimer: I'm not a GLib maintainer