From kde-kimageshop  Mon Feb 20 13:19:31 2023
From: "L. E. Segovia" <amy () amyspark ! me>
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2023 13:19:31 +0000
To: kde-kimageshop
Subject: Re: Updating LittleCMS to 2.15 + Meson build
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A contributor had already set Meson up by the time I showed up, but it
lacked the fast float plugin and the test suite (among other
Windows-specific bits) so I ported them all.

amyspark

On 20/02/2023 06:40, Halla Rempt wrote:
> On maandag 20 februari 2023 10:22:46 CET Halla Rempt wrote:
>> On maandag 20 februari 2023 10:05:25 CET Wolthera wrote:
>>> On Mon, Feb 20, 2023 at 9:40 AM Halla Rempt <halla@valdyas.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Well, Meson should never have been created and should not exist or be supported -- it's a stupid thing that was only created because Gnome couldn't adopt cmake because KDE had adopted cmake before.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Hey, this is a bit excessive, especially towards someone who was
>>> completely unaware of this history and thought they were making a
>>> friendly suggestion. A "I'd rather not" would've sufficed.
>>>
>>
>> I'm fine with using it, but I do think having a bit of context why it exists is useful.
>>
> 
> So, I guess Marti didn't accept a cmake build system? Because that would be the only reason why we'd push something like Meson to upstream. 
> 
> Halla
> 
> 
> 

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