[Buildroot] ninja/python-meson packages

[Thijs Vermeir]

Hi,

On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 11:13 PM, Thomas Petazzoni
<thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Wed, 9 Nov 2016 23:01:12 +0100, Cédric Marie wrote:
>
>> Le 09/11/2016 à 21:28, Thomas Petazzoni a écrit :
>> > We are definitely fine with supporting the meson build system in
>> > Buildroot. The only reason we didn't merge the patches that were
>> > proposed is because no package was using them. As soon as we have one
>> > package using this build system in Buildroot, we will of course happily
>> > merge patches adding support for it.
>>
>> The current gstreamer1 version in Buildroot is 1.8.3.
>> The support for meson was added in 1.9.2. So upgrading gstreamer1 is
>> certainly necessary before merging Meson support.
>
> OK. However, isn't 1.9.x considered a "development" branch from the
> point of view of GStreamer? At least for Glib/Gtk, the releases with
> an odd are development ones if I remember correctly.

Yes, that is correct. GStreamer 1.10.0 is now the latest stable
release. Note that the
support for the meson build system is only experimental and not on par
with the autotools
based build system.

Gr,
Thijs