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

[Andrea Bolognani]

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.

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Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization