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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hi Sylvain,</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">> Could the path of migrating from
autotools to meson a valid one?</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">I am not a buildsystem-expert, though
meson is said to be much more simple than autohell and is widely
used nowadays.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">If there is a direct benefit regarding
testing from my POV it should be fine to port xfce4-clipman-plugin
to meson ... though others devs might have a different POV here.
(I suppose our CI would need to be touched in order to support
meson builds)<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">For a start, check this inofficial
plugin which as well uses meson: <span id="LC9" class="line"
lang="markdown"><span class="sx"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://gitlab.xfce.org/itsManjeet/sample-python-plugin">https://gitlab.xfce.org/itsManjeet/sample-python-plugin</a></span><span
class="p"></span></span> </div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">In any case, if you are goint to port
it, please use a separate MR.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">> So I did a merge request for the
work in progress:<br>
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<a
href="https://gitlab.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfce4-clipman-plugin/-/merge_requests/17">>
https://gitlab.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfce4-clipman-plugin/-/merge_requests/17</a></div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Thank you! Phew, a +2000 line change
:F .. dont have time to review it, though I will try to give some
general hints.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Cheers,</div>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Alex<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 29.12.21 um 08:02 schrieb Sylvain
Viart:<br>
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Hi Alex,<br>
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Thanks for your CC. :-)<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 27/12/2021 15:33, Alex wrote:<br>
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in order that others can see what you did / to bring back you
changes to the origin, it would help alot to have a merge
request. Label it as WIP, if it is working in process.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">(Though currently
xfce4-clipman-plugin is unmaintained, so dont expect a review
/ reply )</div>
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As my work was a PoC at first, it was not necessary to have a MR.
Nor even it have any meaning to me. <br>
Also I didn't know the use-case of holding a change into a merge
request, that is still not to be merged.<br>
Thanks for the information.<br>
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So I did a merge request for the work in progress:<br>
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href="https://gitlab.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfce4-clipman-plugin/-/merge_requests/17">https://gitlab.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfce4-clipman-plugin/-/merge_requests/17</a><br>
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<blockquote> reader useful link <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/merge_requests/drafts.html">https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/merge_requests/drafts.html</a><br>
current gitlab xfce version is: GitLab Community Edition 14.5.2
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The new text label for WIP MR seems to be' Draft:'<br>
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Back on automated unit testing:<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">> I mean if I've to run it [test
binaries] manually, it's not the idea I've about an automated
test suite.</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">No idea what was the intend behind
these tests ... a pity that ther was no README in the
test-folder. Would be great if you could figure out and open
an according MR.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">> So I suppose I can start
anywhere...</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Yea, I think so. <a
href="https://docs.gtk.org/glib/testing.html"
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and automake probably are the right points to start looking.<br>
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Unfortunately the glib's forum/discourse answer was:<br>
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href="https://discourse.gnome.org/t/add-unit-testing-to-a-gtk-c-application/8450">https://discourse.gnome.org/t/add-unit-testing-to-a-gtk-c-application/8450</a><br>
TL;DR: use meson not autotools 🙁<br>
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So setuping those automated test (glib one with automake) seems a
bit deprecated. They even removed the files mentioned is the doc
from the repos. 🙁<br>
So I may start somewhere else. I will explore. 😕<br>
This mean that setuping automated test will be a real quest (a
huge one), I'm gonna write a novel. 😉<br>
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It seems I found a thread with huge bobbin. 😁<br>
Hopefully I'm very tenacious (some may say pugnacious, or even
stubborn) so I will go through.<br>
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Could the path of migrating from autotools to meson a valid one?<br>
I mean I looked to some project in xfce, I even did a find search
on the docker container xfce-test /git and the only project using
meson is (over 65 repos)<br>
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./Greybird/meson.build<br>
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Note I don't know meson yet, nor autotools.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">> I also found: xfce-test and
behave, but I don't know yet how to use it.</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Here some info: <a
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href="https://wiki.xfce.org/testing/xfce-test"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://wiki.xfce.org/testing/xfce-test</a></div>
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Ho, thanks, it seems I missed this one.<br>
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To be continued.<br>
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Regards,<br>
Sylvain.<br>
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