Release notes for 0.37.0

0.37.0 is not released yet, these are preliminary

New features

Mesontest

Mesontest is a new testing tool that allows you to run your tests in many different ways. As an example you can run tests multiple times:

mesontest --repeat=1000 a_test

or with an arbitrary wrapper executable:

mesontest --wrap='valgrind --tool=helgrind' a_test

or under gdb, 1000 times in a row. This is handy for tests that fail spuriously, as when the crash happens you are given the full GDB command line:

mesontest --repeat=1000 --gdb a_test

Mesonrewrite

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Gnome module

• Detect required programs and print useful errors if missing

gtkdoc

• Allow passing a list of directories to src_dir kwarg
• Add namespace kwarg
• Add mode kwarg
• Fix gtkdoc-scangobj finding local libraries

compile_resources

• Add gresource_bundle kwarg to output .gresource files
• Add export and install_header kwargs
• Use depfile support available in GLib >= 2.52.0

i18n module

• Add merge_file() function for creating translated files
• Add preset kwarg to included common gettext flags
• Read languages from LINGUAS file

Other stuff

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