After exactly 10 years, Meson 1.0.0 is out
The first ever commit to the Meson repository was made 10 years ago to this day. To celebrate we have just released the long-awaited version 1.0.
The original design criterion for doing a 1.0 release was "when Meson does everything GStreamer needs". This happened, checks notes, three years ago (arguably even earlier than that). That is not the world's fastest reaction time, but that comes mostly down to our development policy. Meson aims to make releases at a steady pace and maintains backwards compatibility fairly well (not perfectly). There is unlikely to ever be a big breaking change, so there is no pressing technical need to bump the major version number.
Thus 1.0 is mostly a symbolical milestone rather than a technical one, end users should not not really notice that big of a difference. This does not mean that the release is any less important, though. To celebrate here is an assortment of random things that have happened over the years. Enjoy.