Switch to Meson to build

[kassoulet]

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[sezanzeb]

Apparently pip changes some stuff with data files, which makes it more difficult to install packages like soundconverter. I need to find a solution for input-remapper for this, and haven't looked into it yet.

• Was this the reason for this change?
• Was it difficult to switch to meson?
• I think soundconverter used to use cmake in the past. Do you think meson is better?
• Do you feel like this is a good solution?
• Does this make soundconverter easily uninstallable too?

I have no idea what meson really does and how it works. That's something I'll read into at a later point.

[kassoulet]

SoundConverter needs to install data to system folders, and that was difficult with setup.py. And using setup.py is deprecated.
In the past I used autoconf+automake for the build system, it worked well but it was a bit overkill for a python app.
I looked at what the other Gnome python apps were using, and almost everyone switched to meson+ninja.
The switch was not difficult, we have a lot of others projects to check how to use it.

Uninstall is possible, by using "ninja uninstall".

[sezanzeb]

Thank you! I'll try that too