Re: [libvirt] [dbus PATCH] build: convert to Meson/Ninja build system

On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 02:55:53PM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > So, to be clear, you're advocating for keeping our list of target > platforms unchanged and exempt Meson specifically from the implicit > requirement we've had so far, which is that all build dependencies > should be installed from distro-provided packages? > > I'm not saying that I'm against this, but I think we should at the > very least document this prominently, and ideally get an explicit > thumbs up from a few downstreams because this could negatively > affect their ability to package new libvirt versions. Of course the best is if the distro's already ships a standard meson that's good enough, if they don't though, they need to use a custom meson to build libvirt. So the comparison is - libvirt.tar.gz that contains a copy of meson sources - libvirt.tar.gz and a meson.tar.gz Both these cases are functionally the same in what the distro ends up building & bundling. So if one causes policy problems for the distro, the other will too IMHO.