[gnutls-devel] GnuTLS | consider using an alternative build system (#320)

[Development of GNU's TLS library]

Xavier Claessens commented on a discussion: https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/issues/320#note_265893893

> Maintaining two build systems needs a certain amount of manual resources.

I wouldn't recommend that, unless it's only for a temporary transition period. IMHO if gnutls decide to add meson build system, it should be with the goal of dropping autotools. This is how we proceeded in glib.

> On several platform we have the extra burden that only old and/or outdated versions of the build tools exist.

As long as you have python 3.5 (that's 4 years old, arguably still "new" I guess...), you can easily install latest meson with pip3. There are no other dependency.

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