On 02/12/2017 Jim Jagielski wrote:
What I don't want is some hybrid monstrosity like we have now. Nor do I want work on the build system to hold off release of 4.2.0.
This is surely a good point. Actually, the wide delay between 4.1.0 and the future 4.2.0 is due in big part to build changes. Most welcome, but also time consuming.
There is a reason, though, that makes Damjan's current effort worth investigating in all cases: we had to put a large patch (for a bugfix involving work with remote files) on hold for 4.1.2 since that would have required updating serf, which in turn would have implied that we added support for SCons as they have switched to it for their recent releases. I can dig up the issue if you need, just ask if interested. Having a way to build SCons-based packages would already be a step forward. And yes, it would be "just another tool" in this case, but with so many dependencies we must be able to integrate many build systems.
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