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.