On 2025-08-23 Sa 10:38 AM, Andres Freund wrote:
Hi,
On 2025-08-23 10:17:59 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
We should be striving to make the meson system as easy to use as
autoconf/make, not trying to attain parity by making the latter experience
worse.
FWIW, I find the autoconf/make test run experience completely unusable. It
literally is made me embark on getting away from it. I don't understand how
people stand it.
Honestly, they both have annoyances and points where it's easy to get
into the weeds. There are definitely cases where meson has left me
scratching my head.
But I think this is really analogous to adding a new object file. That
needs to be added to the Makefile as well as the meson.build file, and I
don't see why tests shouldn't work the same. That might be slightly
annoying, but it would be way down on my list.
cheers
andrew
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