[virt-tools-list] [PATCH virt-viewer 0/2] Initial support for building with meson/ninja

[Daniel P. Berrangé]

On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 11:07:57AM +0200, Eduardo Lima (Etrunko) wrote:
> The first patch is a preparation for the new build system. As it uses
> a built in function provided by meson for generating the enum files, it
> is not possible to run sed on the resulting file, so we need to keep it
> as is.
> 
> As for the build itself, the only missing features are windows related,
> which I don't really know how to implement, but should not be difficult.

IIUC, this series adds meson support, but leaves the autotools
support unchanged.

I really don't like the idea of maintaining 2 build systems at
the same time. It will inevitably lead to obscure bugs that depend
on which build system is used. We've already suffered from this with
GTK itself supporting both and their developers & CI only ever testing
meson leading autotools to break.

I'm a big fan of meson so I think we should simply do a straight
switch. The main question is when, and that's largely determined
by what platforms we care about.


Regards,
Daniel
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