Horton

Re: meson "experimental"?

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>

View thread View on postgr.es
From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
To: Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander@timescale.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Date: 2024-05-30T15:03:33Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
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. On Windows I just install python and then do "pip install meson
ninja"

cheers

andrew

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.