Migration from autotools to meson

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Tue, Apr 09, 2024 at 10:20:49PM -0700, Brian Tarricone wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> There's been some discussion over on GitLab[0] about migrating to meson.  The current feeling is that it should be all-or-nothing for Xfce 4.20, at least for the core components (those under 'xfce/' on GitLab), so initially the autotools files would not be removed, at least until all components are migrated.  I'm very interested in getting this done, and am fine working on the shared components, and any component where the maintainer both doesn't have the time, and doesn't care/want to do it themselves.
> 
> Next is packaging; I know we have a bunch of distro packagers on the list here.  Do y'all have any concerns with this?  I was digging through the Meson documentation, and AFAICT the minimum Meson version we would need is 0.54.0 (which is four years old, and, for reference, both Debian stable and oldstable, as well as the current Ubuntu LTS release, have newer versions).

Not a problem at all in Fedora land... even rhel9 has 0.63.3.

kevin
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