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   Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Dec-2022 02:55:33 JST Alexandre Oliva

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   have you by any chance measured how much human time it took to get the converted build configuration files in place?
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     GTK (gtk@floss.social)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Dec-2022 02:55:39 JST GTK

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     To those still wondering what kind of performance improvement Meson brings to an established project over Autotools, here are some numbers from the Yocto project after they switched their native GTK3 build recipe:

     config (autotools): 38.5s
     config (meson): 17.9s (-53.5%)
     install (autotools): 11.2s
     install (meson): 1.6s (-85.5%)
     compile (autotools): 100.8s
     compile (meson): 37.5s (-62.8%)

     The build went from over 2 minutes to sub-1 minute

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     GTK (gtk@floss.social)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Dec-2022 02:55:40 JST GTK

     We are dropping the Autotools build for GTK 3.x, and have fully switched to Meson. If you package GTK 3 and you are still using Autotools, now is the time to switch.

     For more information, see the announcement on Discourse: https://discourse.gnome.org/t/removing-the-autotools-build-for-gtk-3/12764

     #gtk #meson #autotools #distro #packaging