On Wed, 2019-09-18 at 17:46 +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
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.
Sounds reasonable to me, but I would really like to have ACKs from at least a couple of downstreams and ideally a PoC showing that doing this doesn't create a massive amount of pain for them. And documenting it is definitely a must. -- Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization