-------- In message <CAJ6ZYQy_tL8C7yWsyuxk-=gjsfy3zy_u-wcbegd63hsvkz+...@mail.gmail.com> , Guillaume Quintard writes:
> >We have been ranting at autotools for years now, and it's been a couple of >years since we tried to get rid of them, so, let's try again, this time >with the "new" kid on the block: meson (https://mesonbuild.com/) I'm all for improving our build system, but it has to be an improvement. One thing that would worry me a bit about meson is the sheer number of dependencies involved. To build it from scratch seems to involve at total of 238 ports on FreeBSD (list below), including both python2, python3, tcl86, mecurial and as far as I can tell anything anybody ever spotted on github. Meson is probably not directly to blame for all 238 ports, but blame or not: They sit at the top of a very, *very* tall tower. Considering how seldom we do nontrivial changes to our build instructions, I would be far more tempted towards a python script which produces a bunch of powerful but tedious Makefiles with full dependency tracking. 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