From: Simon McVittie Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2024 12:42:36 +0000 (+0000) Subject: INSTALL, README: Simplify Meson vs. CMake recommendation X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7f362782d6b54c09e42f972f7302f761c0fb45fd;p=thirdparty%2Fdbus.git INSTALL, README: Simplify Meson vs. CMake recommendation Now that 1.16.0 has been released and 1.15.x is EOL, it's misleading to say that Meson is the recommended build system for Unix only on the master branch: it's the recommended build system for Unix on the dbus-1.16 branch, too. This also avoids explicitly naming the master branch, which is likely to get renamed to main. Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie --- diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index cbcb19584..64c2e968d 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -5,9 +5,9 @@ Quick start =========== This branch of dbus can be built by using Meson or CMake. -The Meson build system is the recommended build system for the master -branch (versions >= 1.15.0), except when building on Windows, for which -CMake is recommended (this recommendation might change to Meson in future). +The Meson build system is the recommended build system since version 1.16.0, +except when building on Windows, for which CMake is recommended (this +recommendation might change to Meson in future). Meson only supports out-of-tree builds, and must be passed a directory to put built and generated sources into. We'll call that directory "build" here. It's diff --git a/README b/README index e00471404..556b218d7 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -87,9 +87,9 @@ Configuration and installation === This branch of dbus can be built by using Meson or CMake. -The Meson build system is the recommended build system for the master -branch (versions >= 1.15.0), except when building on Windows, for which -CMake is recommended (this recommendation might change to Meson in future). +The Meson build system is the recommended build system since version 1.16.0, +except when building on Windows, for which CMake is recommended (this +recommendation might change to Meson in future). Please see `INSTALL` for full details.