On Wed, 2016-11-16 at 07:43 -0500, Greg Troxel wrote: […] > I have never heard of Meson before. Certainly I may not be paying > enough attention, but it's hard to believe it is mainstream yet.
GStreamer for one is looking to replace Autotools with Meson. > While CMake is now reasonably common, the idea that some kind of > packaging system will only build packages that use Cmake is very odd. > Certainly large amounts of software does not use CMake, and it is not > reasonable to call something broken because it doesn't. > > Before adopting a new build system, I'd like to see written > requirements > for the build system, specifically including portability and cross > building, and to see an analysis of how there will be no regressions. This is a clear management tool to say "we are not going to do this". Unlike the comment "Show us it working and we'll think about it" which is positive, "write a proposal document" is, to a software project, management speak that means "we will put up barriers to avoid any change". I get the message. I'll go away. -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@winder.org.uk London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder
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