Received: from malur.postgresql.org ([217.196.149.56]) by arkaria.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1ob3xo-000614-Sg for pgsql-hackers@arkaria.postgresql.org; Wed, 21 Sep 2022 17:56:48 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=malur.postgresql.org) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1ob3xn-0007AR-PG for pgsql-hackers@arkaria.postgresql.org; Wed, 21 Sep 2022 17:56:47 +0000 Received: from makus.postgresql.org ([2001:4800:3e1:1::229]) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1ob3xn-00077U-FN for pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org; Wed, 21 Sep 2022 17:56:47 +0000 Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us ([66.207.139.130]) by makus.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1ob3xl-0004Qs-7S for pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org; Wed, 21 Sep 2022 17:56:46 +0000 Received: from sss1.sss.pgh.pa.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id 28LHubq41218790; Wed, 21 Sep 2022 13:56:38 -0400 From: Tom Lane To: Andres Freund cc: Peter Eisentraut , Andrew Dunstan , Thomas Munro , Justin Pryzby , samay sharma , Nazir Bilal Yavuz , pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [RFC] building postgres with meson - v13 In-reply-to: <20220921164630.wrklkjmifjqjtlwc@awork3.anarazel.de> References: <20211012083721.hvixq4pnh2pixr3j@alap3.anarazel.de> <20220915022626.5xx3ccgkzpkqw5mq@awork3.anarazel.de> <38ff430c-4a53-63f1-caf7-bb54c024d344@enterprisedb.com> <20220920021630.vufrgcjmidimcarq@awork3.anarazel.de> <20220921164630.wrklkjmifjqjtlwc@awork3.anarazel.de> Comments: In-reply-to Andres Freund message dated "Wed, 21 Sep 2022 09:46:30 -0700" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <1218788.1663782997.1@sss.pgh.pa.us> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2022 13:56:37 -0400 Message-ID: <1218789.1663782997@sss.pgh.pa.us> List-Id: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Owner: List-Archive: Archived-At: Precedence: bulk Andres Freund writes: > I think we should: > - convert windows to build with ninja - it builds faster, runs all tests= , > parallelizes tests. That means that msbuild based builds don't have co= verage > via CI / cfbot, but we don't currently have the resources to test both= . Check. The sooner we can get rid of the custom MSVC scripts, the better, because now we'll be on the hook to maintain *three* build systems. > - add a linux build using meson, we currently can afford building both w= ith > autoconf and meson for linux Right. > I'm less clear on whether we should convert macos / freebsd to meson at = this > point? We certainly could debug/polish the meson stuff just on linux and windows for now, but is there a reason to wait on the others? regards, tom lane