On Tue, Aug 19, 2025 at 11:25:02PM +0100, Ramsay Jones wrote:
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> On 19/08/2025 09:18, Patrick Steinhardt wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have upstreamed support for Meson into both gitk [1] and git-gui [2].
> > This small patch series wires up support in Git.
>
> Just a quick FYI, but I think git-gui needs some changes equivalent to
> commit 586919c3b2 ("meson: fix installation when -Dlibexexdir is set",
> 2025-07-16).
Ah, thanks for the hint. Will eventually fix it upstream.
> [I don't understand the difference between subdir() and subproject(), so
> I'm not quite sure how to proceed, but I guess git-gui is a separate
> project root and 'options' will be passed as-is with a new context?]
Yup. This is done so that both gitk and git-gui can also be installed
standalone.
> gitk doesn't install anything in the libexecdir, so should not need a
> similar change.
>
> > To the best of my knowledge this is the last missing piece for feature
> > compatibility with our Makefile. As such, from my point of view, I think
> > that we can stop treating the Meson build system as experimental and
> > instead officially endorse it. Once merged I'll thus send another patch
> > series that updates our documentation in various different places to
> > also mention how to build Git with Meson.
>
> Hmm, that seems a little soon to me. ;) I still have quite a few 'misc build
> updates (part #3)' patches to send to the list (yes, I have been a bit tardy;
> sorry about that).
Looking forward to them :
> Also, let's not forget the 'quoting nightmare' [0], which has still not been
> addressed.
Fair, that one is still outstanding. But I guess with "feature
compatibility" I was rather referring to actually user-facing things
that Meson cannot do yet. I guess overall it will still take a bit of
time for smaller follow-up fixes to land. But in most cases I think that
Meson can be used without issues now.
Patrick
