Re: [RFC] building postgres with meson - v11

On 02.09.22 19:16, samay sharma wrote:
> Another thing I'd like input on. A common question I've heard from 
> people who've tried out the docs is How do we do the equivalent of X in 
> make with meson. As meson will be new for a bunch of people who are 
> fluent with make, I won't be surprised if this is a common ask. To 
> address that, I was planning to add a page to specify the key things one 
> needs to keep in mind while "migrating" from make to meson and having a 
> translation table of commonly used commands.
> 
> I was planning to add it in the meson section, but if we go ahead with 
> the structure proposed above, it doesn't fit it into one as cleanly. 
> Maybe, it still goes in the meson section? Thoughts?

This could go into the wiki.

For example, we have 
<https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Working_with_Git>, which was added 
during the CVS->Git transition.

This avoids that we make the PostgreSQL documentation a substitute 
manual for a third-party product.