Reopens the 2026-07-21 design decision to keep xceadmin outside meson.
Standard onboarding consistency (README 3.3 `nix build .#xcecore` and
3.4 `meson compile` working for xceadmin like every other component)
outweighs the earlier concern about meson's single-artifact model not
fitting a multi-file pip install.
- src/xceadmin/meson.build: custom_target() wrapping install+test,
stamp-file output, build_always_stale (matches this repo's existing
clean-rebuild-every-invocation convention).
- src/xceadmin/meson-build.sh: out-of-tree pinned install + pytest;
stages a repo-mirror/ symlink tree so tests' fixed-relative-path
assumptions (src/configs/, src/schema/, ha/data/) still resolve from
a copied location, without touching their deliberate fail-loud
behavior.
- src/meson.build: subdir('xceadmin') under component != 'xcecli'.
- src/tools/xce-build.sh: xceadmin case now delegates to
`meson compile -C "$BUILD_DIR" xceadmin` instead of its own
pip/venv implementation, like every other component.
Verified both build paths: meson compile (165/165 passed) and
nix build --option sandbox false .#xcecore_debug (128 passed / 37
skipped — cert-dependent tests correctly skip under nix's
git-tracked-only hermetic source). AppImage bundling (README 3.5)
is explicitly deferred to future work, not part of this change.
design.md, research.md (new), brief.md and requirements.md (updated
during spec authoring: Req 1.6 resolved/superseded by bundling, Req
5.5 added, Req 4.3/4.4 extended for limits.yaml) had been sitting
uncommitted since before implementation began -- the entire 18-task
implementation was built against these documents without them ever
landing in git.
src/configs/*.yaml + schema/*.schema.json: the example config
directory and bundled JSON schemas most of the test suite reads as
"real repo fixtures" (test_config_build.py, test_mapping.py,
test_validation.py, etc.) were likewise never committed -- those
tests would silently skip (skipif guards) rather than run for anyone
else checking out this branch.
