From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnout Vandecappelle Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2016 22:24:15 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] ninja/python-meson packages In-Reply-To: References: <98b7a6164112ee321e9220d5b8c47a33@openmailbox.org> <20161109212812.39399895@free-electrons.com> <37cfb466-91a2-2434-24a4-dbd13ddfbc0f@openmailbox.org> <20161109231339.6a4830c6@free-electrons.com> Message-ID: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On 10-11-16 11:28, Thijs Vermeir wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 11:13 PM, Thomas Petazzoni > wrote: >> Hello, >> >> On Wed, 9 Nov 2016 23:01:12 +0100, C?dric Marie wrote: >> >>> Le 09/11/2016 ? 21:28, Thomas Petazzoni a ?crit : >>>> We are definitely fine with supporting the meson build system in >>>> Buildroot. The only reason we didn't merge the patches that were >>>> proposed is because no package was using them. As soon as we have one >>>> package using this build system in Buildroot, we will of course happily >>>> merge patches adding support for it. >>> >>> The current gstreamer1 version in Buildroot is 1.8.3. >>> The support for meson was added in 1.9.2. So upgrading gstreamer1 is >>> certainly necessary before merging Meson support. >> >> OK. However, isn't 1.9.x considered a "development" branch from the >> point of view of GStreamer? At least for Glib/Gtk, the releases with >> an odd are development ones if I remember correctly. > > Yes, that is correct. GStreamer 1.10.0 is now the latest stable > release. Note that the > support for the meson build system is only experimental and not on par > with the autotools > based build system. Perhaps then it would be good for the GStreamer project if the meson build system would be (build)-tested by the buildroot autobuild infrastructure, no? Regards, Arnout -- Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at mind be Senior Embedded Software Architect +32-16-286500 Essensium/Mind http://www.mind.be G.Geenslaan 9, 3001 Leuven, Belgium BE 872 984 063 RPR Leuven LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/arnoutvandecappelle GPG fingerprint: 7493 020B C7E3 8618 8DEC 222C 82EB F404 F9AC 0DDF