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jjk-jacky / statusnotifier

Library to use KDE's StatusNotifierItem via GObject
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Interested in using Meson build system? #16

Closed TingPing closed 7 years ago

TingPing commented 7 years ago

A lot of GNOME projects are moving to Meson and it is a far more simple and enjoyable build system to use. Would you be interested in me adding support for it and ideally dropping autotools? Since this isn't widely deployed I think it shouldn't be overly disruptive. This also helps projects that want to us this as a submodule until the point where it is widely packaged.

jjk-jacky commented 7 years ago

Well, I've seen projects moving to meson yes, but I'm not sure how adding (make) dependencies such as python is (always) a good thing. Though I guess maybe when you're building a DE you already need it/don't care.

Either way, I'm definitely not for dropping autotools.

And considering I don't know much python & next to nothing about meson, I'm worried about the maintenance burden of having both build systems supported side by side...

TingPing commented 7 years ago

Well, I've seen projects moving to meson yes, but I'm not sure how adding (make) dependencies such as python is (always) a good thing. Though I guess maybe when you're building a DE you already need it/don't care.

Gtk and GLib both use Meson now (though optional until Gtk4) so it is very likely that by the point you build statusnotifier meson is already installed. For end users I don't think it is a problem.

And considering I don't know much python & next to nothing about meson, I'm worried about the maintenance burden of having both build systems supported side by side...

Worth noting Meson build scripts are not Python so that knowledge isn't needed. Meson itself is very simple and this entire project will probably be about 100 lines worth. Unless you do something crazy I wouldn't expect a ton of maintenance.

jjk-jacky commented 7 years ago

Gtk and GLib both use Meson now (though optional until Gtk4) so it is very likely that by the point you build statusnotifier meson is already installed. For end users I don't think it is a problem.

I don't know, I imagine there could be lots of people building app linking GLib/GTK w/out building either themselves... those are quite different things.

Worth noting Meson build scripts are not Python so that knowledge isn't needed. Meson itself is very simple and this entire project will probably be about 100 lines worth. Unless you do something crazy I wouldn't expect a ton of maintenance.

But having to maintain 2 build systems is more work. And sure, today it might seem that things be somewhat easy w/ meson, but who knows what tomorrow will bring?