Re: meson "experimental"?

On 04.06.24 17:24, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Wed, May 29, 2024 at 2:41 AM Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org> wrote:
>> "Alternatively, PostgreSQL can be built using Meson.  This is the only
>> option for building PostgreSQL in Windows using Visual Something[*].
>> For other platforms, using Meson is currently experimental."
> 
> Is it, though? I feel like we're beyond the experimental stage now.

Experimental is probably too harsh a word now.

But it doesn't have feature parity with configure/make yet (for example, 
no .bc files), so I wouldn't recommend it for production or packaging 
builds.

Then, there are issues like [0].  If it's experimental, then this is 
like, meh, we'll fix it later.  If not, then it's a bug.

More generally, I don't think we've really done a comprehensive check of 
how popular extensions build against pgxs-from-meson.  Packagers that 
make their production builds using meson now might be signing up for a 
long tail of the unknown.


[0]: 
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/49e97fd0-c17e-4cbc-aeee-80ac51400736@eisentraut.org