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<a href="https://gitlab.com/xclaesse">Xavier Claessens</a>
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<p dir="auto">Glib indeed has it's own copy of gnulib code and wrote their own meson build definition for it.</p>
<p dir="auto">However, now that glib dropped autotools, I think they should instead use gnulib as subproject, and either:</p>
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<li>merge meson build definition upstream</li>
<li>have a "fork" git repo with meson</li>
<li>put it in wrapdb, it's a collection of projects for which meson.build files are stored in a separate tarball. That helps using common non-meson projects as meson subproject.</li>
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<p dir="auto">Having gnulib as subproject means meson can download and build it for you if not found on the system. On less dependency to care about for the user.</p>
<p dir="auto">Doing this, and having gnutls as meson project, would mean glib-networking could use gnutls as subproject, and share the same build of gnulib, instead of having 2 copies currently, as far as I understand.</p>
<p dir="auto">IMHO the build speed is great but it's not the main adventage of meson. I like meson because it makes the build definition a lot nicer than obscure shell and m4 scripts that nobody really understand. And it supports more advanced features like subproject.</p>
<p dir="auto">Finally, I don't think Python 3 is a big dependency. It is available everywhere and much easier to install that autotools. Especially on Windows autotools requires msys2 or similar Unix env, that is not needed with meson.</p>
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