Re: [RFC PATCH v4l-utils 1/1] Introduce support for meson building

[Nicolas Dufresne <nicolas@ndufresne.ca>]

Le mercredi 25 mars 2020 à 12:26 +0200, Laurent Pinchart a écrit :
> > Custom reporting is no longer recommended, meson have a option driven
> > report (summary). The plus side is that it will be printed at the end
> > properly even if this project is used as subproject.
> 
> I didn't know about that, it's nice. The option has been added to meson
> 0.53 though, which may be a tad too recent ?

Indeed, but be careful with such an argument, since someone could come back and
say meson is too early, it's not over 10 years old yet. I think best is too look
at how often distro updates this library. If they only update when the entire
distro is updated, my recommendation is to use the version that best suite your
work. If they tend to backport on stable distro, then maybe it's best to be
conservative.

In GStreamer we do both, we stick with older meson in stable release (1.16)
unless there is a bug in meson that caused a bad build. And use the most recent
version in development, so that next when distro moves to a new stable, they
have to update meson at the same time, obviously for the benifit of their users.
(Also because a some upcoming meson feature are written by GStreamer developers,just to be honnest). 

Nicolas