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

[Randolph Sapp <rs@ti.com>]

On Mon Jun 3, 2024 at 4:37 PM CDT, Richard Purdie wrote:
> 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

Don't worry about the 404. The freedesktop gitlab in in the middle of a
migration. The project is still alive :)

- Randolph