On 20/08/20 12:54, Kevin Wolf wrote: >> Paolo's conversion-to-Meson patchseries is about to land, so now >> is the time for people who would like this "automatically create >> a build directory and use it" behaviour to write the necessary >> patches. Any volunteers ? >> >> My current plan is to land the Meson series first, because it is >> really painful for Paolo to try to keep rebasing it as other >> changes to the old build system occur. This would break >> in-tree builds temporarily until the "automatic creation and >> use of a builddir" patches go in on top of it. > > Usually, our requirement is that patch series don't break anything. And > if something slips through, whoever broke it is supposed to fix it, not > whoever is affected.
The Meson conversion was announced in October 2019 as breaking in-tree builds, and the deprecation request is from March 2020. So I don't think this is a breakage but rather a widely-announced change. Paolo
