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From: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>
To: Dylan Baker <dylan@pnwbakers.com>, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Cc: mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [RFC libdrm 0/2] Replace the build system with meson
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2017 10:24:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fui5afd8.fsf@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <149011337067.7993.8735883601342413966@localhost.localdomain>

On Tue, 21 Mar 2017, Dylan Baker <dylan@pnwbakers.com> wrote:
> Quoting Jani Nikula (2017-03-21 07:44:55)
>> How does meson handle build file backwards compatibility between meson
>> versions? I don't intend to flame, but I've found for some reason many
>> python projects don't seem to take this very seriously. Either having
>> conditionals in build files to support building with several meson
>> versions or always requiring the latest and greatest version would be
>> rather annoying.
>
> Meson makes backwards compatible changes, and the version can be
> queried using `meson.version()`, which works using meson's version
> comparison mechanism. I would say this about meson, it's not a 'python
> project', it's 'a project written in python',

This is what I meant above, although I clearly didn't write it that way.

> and they've taken great pains to not expose python in meson, and
> reserve the right to reimplement in a different language if python
> becomes an issue.

Right. That helps avoid many of the issues e.g. Sphinx has with the
configuration files being pure python.


BR,
Jani.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-03-22  8:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 94+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-16 21:25 [RFC libdrm 0/2] Replace the build system with meson Dylan Baker
2017-03-16 21:25 ` [RFC libdrm 1/2] Port build system to meson Dylan Baker
2017-03-16 21:25 ` [RFC libdrm 2/2] remove autotools build Dylan Baker
2017-03-16 21:32 ` [RFC libdrm 0/2] Replace the build system with meson Ilia Mirkin
2017-03-16 21:57   ` Dylan Baker
2017-03-17 10:05     ` Neil Armstrong
2017-03-16 22:36 ` Marek Olšák
2017-03-16 23:11   ` Dylan Baker
2017-03-17  1:53     ` Marek Olšák
2017-03-17  4:15       ` Dylan Baker
2017-03-17 21:18         ` Marek Olšák
2017-03-22 17:26   ` Jose Fonseca
2017-03-22 17:50     ` [Mesa-dev] " Marek Olšák
2017-03-16 23:35 ` Emil Velikov
2017-03-17  0:21   ` Dylan Baker
2017-03-17  0:41     ` Emil Velikov
2017-03-17  2:03       ` Jason Ekstrand
2017-03-17  2:28         ` Brian Paul
2017-03-22 17:59           ` Jose Fonseca
2017-03-22 20:57             ` [Mesa-dev] " Dylan Baker
2017-03-22 22:02               ` Rob Clark
2017-03-22 22:15                 ` Eric Anholt
2017-03-22 22:33                   ` Dylan Baker
2017-03-24 14:03               ` Jose Fonseca
2017-03-24 14:22                 ` [Mesa-dev] " Daniel Stone
2017-03-24 15:47                   ` Jose Fonseca
2017-03-25 20:15                     ` [Mesa-dev] " Rob Clark
2017-03-24 16:23                 ` Bas Nieuwenhuizen
2017-03-17  4:12         ` Dylan Baker
2017-03-17  6:02           ` Jonathan Gray
2017-03-20 13:55         ` [Mesa-dev] " Emil Velikov
2017-03-20 18:30           ` Matt Turner
2017-03-20 19:39             ` [Mesa-dev] " Emil Velikov
2017-03-20 21:28               ` Timothy Arceri
2017-03-20 21:38                 ` Jason Ekstrand
2017-03-21  5:00                 ` Jonathan Gray
2017-03-21 16:00                   ` Matt Turner
2017-03-23 12:23                   ` Jonathan Gray
2017-03-23 18:31                   ` Emil Velikov
2017-03-21 15:57               ` [Mesa-dev] " Matt Turner
2017-03-21 17:16                 ` Emil Velikov
2017-03-21 18:06                   ` Matt Turner
2017-03-21 18:56                     ` [Mesa-dev] " Emil Velikov
2017-03-21 19:08                       ` Jason Ekstrand
2017-03-21 19:10                       ` [Mesa-dev] " Matt Turner
2017-03-22 17:16                         ` Emil Velikov
2017-03-24 20:59                     ` Chad Versace
2017-03-24 20:44                 ` [Mesa-dev] " Chad Versace
2017-03-28 16:59                   ` Emil Velikov
2017-03-28 23:19                     ` Timothy Arceri
2017-03-21  5:10             ` Jonathan Gray
2017-03-21 16:11               ` [Mesa-dev] " Matt Turner
2017-03-24 16:58             ` randyf
2017-03-20 19:29           ` Rob Clark
2017-03-21 14:44 ` Jani Nikula
2017-03-21 15:13   ` Grazvydas Ignotas
2017-03-21 15:15     ` Ilia Mirkin
2017-03-21 16:16     ` Dylan Baker
2017-03-21 16:22   ` Dylan Baker
2017-03-22  4:23     ` [Mesa-dev] " Jonathan Gray
2017-03-22  8:24     ` Jani Nikula [this message]
2017-03-22 21:05       ` Dylan Baker
2017-03-23  8:13         ` Jani Nikula
2017-03-21 16:50 ` Kai Wasserbäch
2017-03-21 17:34   ` Dylan Baker
2017-03-21 18:36     ` [Mesa-dev] " Kai Wasserbäch
2017-03-21 21:16       ` Dylan Baker
2017-03-22 16:40 ` Alex Deucher
2017-03-22 17:07   ` Rob Clark
2017-03-22 20:10     ` [Mesa-dev] " Dylan Baker
2017-03-22 21:48       ` Rob Clark
2017-03-23 21:56         ` Greg Hackmann
2017-03-23 22:14           ` Colin Cross
2017-03-23 23:56             ` Dylan Baker
2017-03-24  0:03               ` [Mesa-dev] " Colin Cross
2017-03-24 16:54                 ` Dylan Baker
2017-03-23  1:18       ` [Mesa-dev] " Jonathan Gray
2017-03-23  1:38         ` Rob Clark
2017-03-24 13:42           ` Jose Fonseca
2017-03-24 17:13             ` Dylan Baker
2017-03-24 17:51               ` Eric Anholt
2017-03-24 18:34                 ` [Mesa-dev] " Daniel Stone
2017-03-24 19:10             ` Kristian Høgsberg
2017-03-24 19:44               ` Jose Fonseca
2017-03-24 20:08                 ` Kristian Høgsberg
2017-03-24 21:16                   ` Jose Fonseca
2017-03-24 21:20                     ` Jason Ekstrand
2017-03-24 21:34                     ` [Mesa-dev] " Rob Clark
2017-03-25  1:25                     ` Dylan Baker
2017-03-24 21:09               ` [Mesa-dev] " Rob Clark
2017-03-23 11:39       ` Emil Velikov
2017-03-23 17:54         ` Dylan Baker
2017-03-25  1:06         ` Kenneth Graunke
2017-03-22 22:30   ` [Mesa-dev] " Eric Anholt

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