On Tue, Jun 4, 2024 at 12:56 PM Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org> wrote:
> Experimental is probably too harsh a word now.
>
> But it doesn't have feature parity with configure/make yet (for example,
> no .bc files), so I wouldn't recommend it for production or packaging
> builds.
That's unfortunate. :-(
> Then, there are issues like [0]. If it's experimental, then this is
> like, meh, we'll fix it later. If not, then it's a bug.
This feels like a case where I'd have to read the entire thread to
understand what the issue is.
> More generally, I don't think we've really done a comprehensive check of
> how popular extensions build against pgxs-from-meson. Packagers that
> make their production builds using meson now might be signing up for a
> long tail of the unknown.
That's a fair point, and I don't know what to do about it, but it
seems like something that needs to be addressed.
--
Robert Haas
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