[pacman-dev] interest in using meson over autotools?

Andrew Gregory andrew.gregory.8 at gmail.com
Sat Jul 7 23:58:36 UTC 2018


On 07/07/18 at 07:13pm, Dave Reisner wrote:
> ...
> Would there be interest in accepting patches to make these changes? I
> propose we would carry both build systems in parallel for a major
> release before eventually dropping autotools.
> 
> Feedback wanted,
> dR

I've hated the experience every single time I've had to deal with our
autotools setup, so I'm definitely open to change.  Our test suite is
currently integrated with it, though.  What changes would we have to
make to our tests for meson?

apg


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