Re: [oe-core] [RFC] meson.bbclass: pkg-config vs pkgconf

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Tue, 2024-06-04 at 00:32 +0300, Marko Lindqvist wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Jun 2024 at 00:22, Richard Purdie via
> lists.openembedded.org
> <richard.purdie=linuxfoundation.org@lists.openembedded.org> wrote:
> > 
> > Keeping it simple and saying "pkg-config behaviour"
> > everywhere is simpler IMO.
> 
>  Do you think that pkg-config will still gain livelihood? I've
> considered it a dead project for some time now. I was about to check
> how many years it's since the latest commit to their repository, but
> the repo URL from freedesktop site now gave 404.

It hasn't really needed to change to be honest. I do agree the 404 is
worrying and it has been a long time since there was a release.

The trouble is, who wants to take on chasing down all the bugs and
pushing changes to all the upstreams that will need patching? In
general people fix a small corner of the problem then get
bored/frustrated/distracted/whatever and move on to something else, not
that I blame them. This isn't a conversion we can half do, it will end
up as another flag day :/.

Cheers,

Richard