Re: ANNOUNCE: build system conversion to Meson has landed

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 21/08/20 16:50, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
> On 08/21/20 15:49, Peter Maydell wrote:
> 
>> https://wiki.qemu.org/Features/Meson/Next has a summary of changes
>> and is worth a quick scan through.
> 
> I'd like to propose a wording clarification:
> 
> """
> For bisection: incremental builds work fine in the forward direction.
> They probably don't work at all backwards. This is mitigated by the fact
> that bisection usually starts at a release, and the patches should be
> applied on top of the 5.1.0 tag.
> """
> 
> namely:
> 
> - s/forward direction/forward direction, across the conversion/
> - s/backwards/backwards, across the conversion/
> 
> Because the way the paragraph is worded now, it suggests that *any*
> individual bisection step that moves backwards in the git history will
> not build. That would be of course catastrophic. We should clarify that
> the symptom is limited to steps that straddle the conversion commit range.
> 
> If the suggested replacements are OK, I can make the edit myself (if
> that's preferred).
> 
> (Not trying to be a busybody -- exactly because I contribute little to
> QEMU, bisection is a comparatively large part of what I *do* do with QEMU.)

That's fine! I made a small adjustment and you're free to improve
further on the wording.

Paolo