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On Thursday 13 of February 2020, Miklos Vajna wrote:
* Meson build system experiments by Jussi Pakkanen (Ilmari)
    + Ilmari’s perspective: want to make the codebase more approachable for
newcomers

 In what way? Newcomers need the Wiki page that basically tells them 
to "./autogen.sh --enable-dbgutil && make", which is neither that difficult 
nor would Meson make it noticeably simpler. Probably the only 
non-approachable parts of the build system is solenv/gbuild, which is not for 
newcomers, and touching that would be similar to hacking on Meson internals, 
which presumably is also not for newcomers.

    + understand that we don’t want to drop something that works already
(Ilmari) + not yet asking for a decision, but please think about this
    + what problem does this solve? (Kendy)
      + usually LO breaks the tools
    + GNOME / wayland is moving to this from autotools (Ilmari)
    + sitting on the fence (Thorsten)
      + significant cost to migrate to anything
      + there are load of unsolved problems with the build system, though

 Is there a list somewhere?

    + would not be great to pay some external developers to do the
migration and then let us maintain it (Stephan)
+ agreed (Kendy, Cloph) 
    + better spend funding money elsewhere (Kendy)
      + e.g. external libs that can’t build in parallel

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 Luboš Luňák
 l.lunak@collabora.com

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