On Fri, 2022-11-11 at 18:52 +0100, Nico Huber wrote:
On 11.11.22 17:47, Felix Singer wrote:
On Fri, 2022-11-11 at 14:49 +0100, Nico Huber wrote:
it feels like this deserves its own thread. I was a little surprised by the news that we are already ready to deprecate Make. Hopefully, I'm just not up to date and this is the case! If I'm horribly off track, please ignore the following.
IIRC, we said this would be the case if we can do everything with Meson what we can do with Make (due to lack of knowing what the latter can, we made a list of target environments that we need to support at least) and Meson produces the same binaries as Make.
Are we there yet?
My last state wrt. the more special target environments like lib- payload was that it seems feasible, but I haven't seen a PoC yet.
I didn't say that we are "ready" to deprecate it, which would mean that there is nothing left to do at this moment. There is still work left. What I basically said was that this is our goal for the upcoming 1.3 release.
so there will be further development (not just fixes) on the 1.3.x branch? Honest question because I wasn't present when the decision was made, and the announcement didn't seem to suggest this.
I just thought about that meeting again and you are right. In the meeting, it was decided that everything what doesn't work will be just reverted if there is no fix available. So there shouldn't be further development other than bug fixes and reverts.
Somehow I mixed that up with "We will do a release candidate, see what works and continue from there".
Sorry for the mess and confusion. I still have the plans from the last 6 months in my head :)
// Felix