Re: meson "experimental"?

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2024-05-31T15:55:29Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Hi, 

On May 30, 2024 8:03:33 AM PDT, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:
>On Thu, May 30, 2024 at 6:32 AM Aleksander Alekseev <
>aleksander@timescale.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> 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. 

VS should work, and if not, we should fix it. It's slow, so I'd not use it for scheduled builds, but for people developing using visual studio. 

Andres 

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Commits

  1. doc: Meson is not experimental on Windows

  2. Fix names of "Visual Studio" and Meson in a documentation sentence.

  3. Fix name of "Visual Studio" in documentation.