Release notes for 0.40.0

Preliminary, 0.40.0 has not been released yet

New features

Outputs of generators can be used in custom targets in the VS backend

This has been possible with the Ninja backend for a long time but now the Visual Studio backend works too.

compute_int method in the compiler objects

This method can be used to evaluate the value of an expression. As an example:

cc = meson.get_compiler('c')
two = cc.compute_int('1 + 1') # A very slow way of adding two numbers.

More

Add here as they are merged to master.