From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from perceval.ideasonboard.com ([213.167.242.64]:58034 "EHLO perceval.ideasonboard.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726845AbeKHFfq (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Nov 2018 00:35:46 -0500 From: Laurent Pinchart To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Cc: Hans Verkuil , Sakari Ailus , Linux Media Mailing List , Ezequiel Garcia , Shuah Khan , sean@mess.org Subject: Re: [RFC] Create test script(s?) for regression testing Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2018 22:04:03 +0200 Message-ID: <15267027.MHiCTJmF4z@avalon> In-Reply-To: <20181107175320.640a8c74@coco.lan> References: <3038136.0uhjixLgno@avalon> <20181107175320.640a8c74@coco.lan> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: linux-media-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi Mauro, On Wednesday, 7 November 2018 21:53:20 EET Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > Em Wed, 07 Nov 2018 21:35:32 +0200 Laurent Pinchart escreveu: > > On Wednesday, 7 November 2018 21:10:35 EET Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: [snip] > >> I'm with Hans on that matter: better to start with an absolute minimum > >> of dependencies (like just: make, autotools, c, c++, bash), > > > > On a site note, for a new project, we might want to move away from > > autotools. cmake and meson are possible alternatives that are way less > > painful. > > Each toolset has advantages or disadvantages. We all know how > autotools can be painful. > > One bad thing with cmake is that they deprecate stuff. A long-live project > usually require several" backward" compat stuff at cmake files in order > to cope with different behaviors that change as cmake evolves. I don't know how much of a problem that would be. My experience with cmake is good so far, but I haven't used it in a large scale project with 10+ years of contributions :-) > I never used mason myself. It's the build system we picked for libcamera, I expect to provide feedback in the not too distant future. [snip] -- Regards, Laurent Pinchart