On Tue, Aug 19, 2025 at 11:25:02PM +0100, Ramsay Jones wrote:

On 19/08/2025 09:18, Patrick Steinhardt wrote:

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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.

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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