meson/docs/markdown/snippets/introspect_projectinfo.md

introspect --projectinfo can now be used without configured build directory

This allows IDE integration to get information about the project before the user has configured a build directory.

Before you could use meson.py introspect --projectinfo build-directory. Now you also can use meson.py introspect --projectinfo project-dir/meson.build.

The output is similiar to the output with a build directory but additionally also includes information from introspect --buildsystem-files.

For example meson.py introspect --projectinfo test\ cases/common/47\ subproject\ options/meson.build This outputs (pretty printed for readability):

{
    "buildsystem_files": [
        "meson_options.txt",
        "meson.build"
    ],
    "name": "suboptions",
    "version": null,
    "descriptive_name": "suboptions",
    "subprojects": [
        {
            "buildsystem_files": [
                "subprojects/subproject/meson_options.txt",
                "subprojects/subproject/meson.build"
            ],
            "name": "subproject",
            "version": "undefined",
            "descriptive_name": "subproject"
        }
    ]
}

Both usages now include a new descriptive_name property which always shows the name set in the project.