[OE-core] Switching GStreamer recipes from autotools to meson

[Carlos Rafael Giani]

Yes, I am preparing recipes for that, based on the work from Philippe 
Normand <philn at igalia.com>.

On 20.05.19 19:49, Khem Raj wrote:
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> On 5/14/19 1:19 AM, Carlos Rafael Giani wrote:
>>  From what I have seen, meson support is stable now.
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>> Also, in GStreamer, autotools is now considered a legacy build 
>> system, and will be removed in future released. From 
>> https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/1.16/ :
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>>  > The Meson build system build is now feature-complete (*) and it is 
>> now the recommended build system on all platforms and also used by 
>> Cerbero to build GStreamer on all platforms. The Autotools build is 
>> scheduled to be removed in the next cycle. Developers who currently 
>> use gst-uninstalled should move to gst-build. The build option naming 
>> has been cleaned up and made consistent and there are now feature 
>> options to enable/disable plugins and various other features on a 
>> case-by-case basis. (*) with the exception of plugin docs which will 
>> be handled differently in future
>>
>> GStreamer recipe upgrades to 1.16.0 have been sent in as a pull 
>> request to meta-gstreamer1.0 . Once these are in, I'm considering to 
>> switch the recipes to meson. Are there any potential issues with 
>> that? For example, anything special about meson and GObject 
>> introspection I should know about?
>>
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> are you doing the 1.16 upgrade to OE-Core as well ?