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Re: meson "experimental"?

Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander@timescale.com>

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From: Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander@timescale.com>
To: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Date: 2024-05-31T10:34:17Z
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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

-- 
Best regards,
Aleksander Alekseev

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.