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([2a02:810a:8300:1c48:7481:7b63:6575:6c2d]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id f12sm5863830wrw.53.2020.06.22.11.07.48 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 22 Jun 2020 11:07:49 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] Add support for meson building To: Xavier Claessens , Laurent Pinchart , Ezequiel Garcia Cc: kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com, Ariel D'Alessandro , linux-media@vger.kernel.org, hverkuil@xs4all.nl, sean@mess.org, p.zabel@pengutronix.de, nicolas@ndufresne.ca, nicolas Dufresne References: <20200618133303.28676-1-ariel@vanguardiasur.com.ar> <20200618133303.28676-2-ariel@vanguardiasur.com.ar> <20200619144229.GD5823@pendragon.ideasonboard.com> From: Gregor Jasny Message-ID: <93bf1b72-0108-1dfa-22b4-f2194660129c@googlemail.com> Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2020 20:07:47 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.9.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-media-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-media@vger.kernel.org Hello, thank you for all the work on building v4l-utils with meson. On 6/19/20 8:40 PM, Xavier Claessens wrote: > From past experience, distros tend to find many small issues with build > systems, especially debian who have tones of scripts to verify what > changed in the package: a missing installed file, a missing build > option, missing build flag, etc. You can either deal with that and roll > a quick point release to fix any issue they could find, or keep both > build systems for a couple releases while recommending downstream (a > note in ChangeLog) to try the meson build system, making it clear > autotools is going away. I'll try to adjust the Debian / Ubuntu packaging scripts to meson. If all goes well I'm not opposed to flip the switch after we release a new stable version. Thanks, Gregor