Re: deprecation of in-tree builds

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 20/08/20 12:54, Kevin Wolf wrote:
>> Paolo's conversion-to-Meson patchseries is about to land, so now
>> is the time for people who would like this "automatically create
>> a build directory and use it" behaviour to write the necessary
>> patches. Any volunteers ?
>>
>> My current plan is to land the Meson series first, because it is
>> really painful for Paolo to try to keep rebasing it as other
>> changes to the old build system occur. This would break
>> in-tree builds temporarily until the "automatic creation and
>> use of a builddir" patches go in on top of it.
>
> Usually, our requirement is that patch series don't break anything. And
> if something slips through, whoever broke it is supposed to fix it, not
> whoever is affected.

The Meson conversion was announced in October 2019 as breaking in-tree
builds, and the deprecation request is from March 2020.  So I don't
think this is a breakage but rather a widely-announced change.

Paolo