X.Org Server's Meson Build System Almost To Feature Parity With Autotools

[phoronix]

Phoronix: X.Org Server's Meson Build System Almost To Feature Parity With Autotools

It looks like the much-delayed X.Org Server 1.20 release with its initial Meson build system support will almost be to feature parity with the server's Autotools build system integration...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Xorg-Meson-Almost-Gold

[brrrrttttt]

Buildstream, Meson, Gitlab. The future.

*GitHub

[yoshi314]

*GitHub

*Gitlab

[caligula]

Whether Meson succeeds or not depends on how Canonical (= anti midas, everything they touch turns into a turd) likes it.

[cen1]

Big mistake not going with CMake.

[kaprikawn]

Big mistake not going with CMake.

Meson has its advantages over CMake. There's drawbacks too, other people have said Meson has good documentation, I've found it to be terrible. The lack of good tutorials hurts it for my personal use too (though I've supported it in my latest project).

But the big advantage is build time. And on a codebase the size of Xorg, that is a big advantage.

[TingPing]

Meson has its advantages over CMake. There's drawbacks too, other people have said Meson has good documentation, I've found it to be terrible. The lack of good tutorials hurts it for my personal use too (though I've supported it in my latest project)..

It is a very simple language, using templates you have a starting point in one command

meson init --language=c --name=myproject --version=0.1

Beyond that reference gets you most places IME: http://mesonbuild.com/Reference-manual.html

[starshipeleven]

Whether Meson succeeds or not depends on how Canonical (= anti midas, everything they touch turns into a turd) likes it.

Canonical isn't an anti-Midas, what turns into a turd is their own little NIH projects.

[starshipeleven]

*GitHub

Bad comparison. Github is a cloud-based source code hosting service, Gitlab is a server-side software you can use to make your own Github-like web-based git repository server with issue tracker and documentation wiki (similar to Github).

Being what it is, Github can't get even remotely near what Gitlab allows you to do as there you own the server.

[DanL]

Whether Meson succeeds or not depends on how Canonical (= anti midas, everything they touch turns into a turd) likes it.

This has very little to do with Canonical. I'm sorry to take away your convenient scapegoat.