On 30 December 2017 at 09:52, Colomban Wendling <[email protected]> wrote: > Le 29/12/2017 à 15:46, Lex Trotman a écrit : >>>> Any help out of this dungeon? >>> >>> Hope this will give you a few doors down, and a chance to take on the >>> final boss :) >> >> One day we really should slay the autotools dragon using the meson gun ;-D > > Is meson good, unlike the gazillion other Autotools alternatives that > are worse than the original (nobody said scons) or not as good or at > least lacking features we currently use (basically well, everything else > I tried or heard of)?
Well, as parts of GTK and Gnome are moving to it, that means it performs the tasks they need, (https://github.com/GNOME/gtk/blob/master/gtk/meson.build) and that should cover our requirements I would have thought, but I havn't checked. But I am only using it for relatively simple things where it "just works" :) > > Anyway, it's not a very serious question, as I could just check, and > possibly try and see to answer, but it's fair :) Yeah, and like most rapidly growing projects that are not commercially supported, the docs lag (though at least its no longer a wiki). > > BTW, I doubt meson is magic enough to install istelf if you didn't when > you tried to run it… and if it is I won't like it :] That would be a distro function would it not? And you need a supported builder, not make. :) From --help on the version I have "--backend {ninja,vs,vs2010,vs2015,vs2017,xcode}" Cheers Lex PS Sorry to the OP for hijacking your thread > > Cheers, > Colomban > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.geany.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.geany.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users
