New in v0.61.0, the install_symlink function lets us install symlinks
directly from Meson, allowing us to remove the meson_vapi_link.py
script.

This is technically an API break, but it in practice shouldn't actually
break anything (and does not break ABI).

Anyone using it previously is likely to have casted to (gpointer) anyway
because this was incorrectly doing void** instead of void*.

Alberto Fanjul authored Jul 18, 2022 and Jeremy Bicha committed Aug 11, 2022

In particular, this updates the version number reported in meson.build
fixing the CI for
gnome-builder!617

Allow to check libgit2-glib version

These callbacks are marked as `allow-none`, so `NULL` should be allowed for them. But the method does nothing if we don't supply any callbacks, so presumably that's what this assert was intended for. However, it currently fails if ANY of the callbacks are `NULL`, we only want it to fail if ALL of the callbacks are `NULL`.

Iñigo Martínez authored Feb 13, 2022 and Alberto Fanjul committed Feb 13, 2022

An external script is used to create symlinks for backward
compatibility on meson files.

When the files already exist, the script raises an exception. Since
the files already exists no new links are created.

Since meson's 0.50 release, `include_directories` accepts strings
that are replaced transparently[0].

This is more readable in some cases, so it has been replaced where
possible.

meson minimum version has also been bumped to 0.50.

[0] http://mesonbuild.com/Release-notes-for-0-50-0.html#include_directories-accepts-a-string

Since 0.49.0, a dictionary could be used as a replacement for each
key/value pair as if `set` method was called for each of them[0].

Almost all of the `configuration_data` objects have been changed to
use a dictionary.

[0] http://mesonbuild.com/Reference-manual.html#configuration_data

Functions derived from generators as `configure_file`,
`custom_target` and `i18n.merge_file` can use placeholders like
`@BASENAME@` that removes the extension from the input filename
string.

The output string has been replaced by this placeholder that
allows in some cases the use of less variables.

The package include dir path (aka `libgit2_glib_pkgincludedir`) has
replace by the use of the `includedir` option path and the expected
subdir path. This way the use of the include subdir is more clearly
related.

This reverts commit 8a1da431.

The commit removed some use of the `python` module to be able to
explicitly compile with `python3` in the post install script
because although meson was using `python` module properly the post
install script was calling `python` binary that might not point to
`python3` binary.

The commit has been reverted and proper solution has been applied by
passing the `python3` installation path used by meson to the post
install script.

The `python3-gobject-devel` has also been added as a requirement for
the CI step.

Since meson's 0.49 version the '/' character can be used as path
separator instead of the `join_paths` function[0].

Every use of the `join_paths` function has been replaced.

[0] http://mesonbuild.com/Release-notes-for-0-49-0.html#joining-paths-with-

Introspection detection checks if the option is enabled and also
if the `g-ir-scanner` is avaialable in the system.

This check has been simplified by short circuiting the check.

meson's GNOME module provides a `mkenums_simple` method[0] that
eases the generation of enum sources. This avoids the use of the
standard template files in most of the cases.

This has been used to remove the need of the enum template files.

gi-docgen is a new tool that tries to avoid some of the issues of
gtk-doc and is also faster.

gtk-doc has been replaced by gi-docgen in CI.

Iñigo Martínez authored May 20, 2021 and Alberto Fanjul committed May 21, 2021

Due to an issue with meson's `buildtype` and `b_ndebug` options[0],
the `b_ndebug` option was converted to a combo option.

This forced `libgit2-glib` to use a workaround that has ended being
the standard meson's behavior. The `b_ndebug` option has also gained
another option called `if-release`.

Due to this changes, the workaround comment has been removed and
proper fix has been used in place.

[0] https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/pull/1896

Jan Alexander Steffens authored Mar 01, 2020 and Alberto Fanjul committed Mar 02, 2020

Replace the deprecated g_get_current_time with g_get_real_time. Adjust
the value calculation so it remains the same.