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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://floss.social/users/GTK/statuses/109484549828276043">GTK (gtk@floss.social)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Dec-2022 02:55:40 JST</a><a href="https://floss.social/@GTK" title="gtk@floss.social"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/71760-48-20221213175539.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="GTK" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">GTK</a></section><article><p>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.</p><p>For more information, see the announcement on Discourse: <a href="https://discourse.gnome.org/t/removing-the-autotools-build-for-gtk-3/12764" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://discourse.gnome.org/t/removing-the-autotools-build-for-gtk-3/12764</a></p><p><a href="https://floss.social/tags/gtk" rel="tag">#gtk</a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/meson" rel="tag">#meson</a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/autotools" rel="tag">#autotools</a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/distro" rel="tag">#distro</a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/packaging" rel="tag">#packaging</a></p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/844617#notice-1654603">In conversation</a><time datetime="2022-12-14T02:55:40+09:00" title="Wednesday, 14-Dec-2022 02:55:40 JST">Wednesday, 14-Dec-2022 02:55:40 JST</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://floss.social/@GTK/109484549828276043" rel="external" title="Sent from floss.social via ActivityPub">floss.social</a></span></span><a href="https://floss.social/@GTK/109484549828276043">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><article><header><div>Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: discourse-gnome-org-uploads.s3.dualstack.us-east-2.amazonaws.com</div><h5><a href="https://discourse.gnome.org/t/removing-the-autotools-build-for-gtk-3/12764#gtk">Removing the Autotools build for GTK 3</a></h5><div></div></header><div>The next GTK 3 release, 3.24.46, will drop support for building with Autotools.  GTK has been using Meson in its main development branch since 2016, and in the gtk-3-24 branch since 2018. While we did not officially support the Meson build in the 3.x branch, we always tested it as part of our CI pipeline. Maintaining two build systems in parallel is not without cost, so we are dropping the older Autotools build in favour of the newer Meson one, now that we are confident in its functionality.  Do...</div><footer></footer></article></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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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
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  Removing the Autotools build for GTK 3
  The next GTK 3 release, 3.24.46, will drop support for building with Autotools. GTK has been using Meson in its main development branch since 2016, and in the gtk-3-24 branch since 2018. While we did not officially support the Meson build in the 3.x branch, we always tested it as part of our CI pipeline. Maintaining two build systems in parallel is not without cost, so we are dropping the older Autotools build in favour of the newer Meson one, now that we are confident in its functionality. Do...

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