Move to meson

[apprehensions]

Hi @fwsmit I just to hear your thoughts for moving Dunst to a better build system such as Meson. The current makefile is using alot of GNUisms and isn't that portable and readable for that matter.

I would like to try to give this a shot.

[apprehensions]

This can also fix alot of consistencies, as this project is featureful and aims for both wayland and x11.

[fwsmit]

Yeah, go for it!

This can also fix alot of consistencies, as this project is featureful and aims for both wayland and x11.

What inconsistencies have you noticed with the current setup?

[apprehensions]

Unfortunately, i am unable to have the current test framework moved to Meson (valgrind is a maybe). This is mostly because of how it is designed (run this program called 'test').

I am unsure what to do.

[apprehensions]

For the time being i will immediately give up due to the complexity of the tests and makefile as a whole:

I had underestimated how big this project is, which is why i initially thought this would be quite easy, as i had figured dunst is this simple notification daemon program.

Could you try atleast making it smaller?