Re: meson "experimental"?

From: Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander(at)timescale(dot)com>
To: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Subject: Re: meson "experimental"?
Date: 2024-05-31 10:34:17
Message-ID: CAJ7c6TMBm+XBMhMnOeiq6C=PXYjhN1kg0oqutCL=UMK_AZaghw@mail.gmail.com
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Hi,

>> By a quick look on the buildfarm we seem to use Ninja >= 1.11.1.
>> However since Meson can use both Ninja and VS as a backend I'm not
>> certain which section would be most appropriate for naming the minimal
>> required version of Ninja.
>
> When I tried building with the VS backend it blew up, I don't recall the details. I think we should just use ninja everywhere. That keeps things simple. On Windows I just install python and then do "pip install meson ninja"

If we know that it doesn't work I suggest removing mention of
--backend option from [1] until it will, in order to avoid any
confusion.

[1]: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/install-meson.html

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Best regards,
Aleksander Alekseev

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