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Re: win+Meson test failures due to ps/build-meson-fixes-0130 topic?

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Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Feb 26, 2025, 22:07 UTC
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On Wed, Feb 26, 2025 at 10:15:50AM +0100, Patrick Steinhardt wrote:
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> > I'm hoping you can tell me I'm holding it wrong, and there's some way to
> > do an incremental build when crossing these sorts of boundaries (without
> > blowing away all of the build products).
> > 
> > I do at least use ccache which makes the "rm -rf" case a little less
> > painful.
> 
> You're not holding it wrong. The problem is that this patch series
> introduces a backwards-incompatible change to the "sane_tools_path"
> option as it changes it from a string to an array, which makes Meson
> hiccup. Once Meson is not considered to be experimental anymore we
> should refrain from changing option types going forward, but until then
> I consider it to be okayish to break things like this.
> 
> From my point of view we can treat Meson as stable as soon as Git v2.49
> is out. So from thereon, I will make sure to not include backwards
> incompatible changes anymore.

Thanks. It's comforting to hear that this is something that's under our control.

-Peff
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