Meson vs. automake/autoconf

[Pekka Paalanen]

On Tue, 6 Feb 2024 09:52:11 +0100
Matthieu Herrb <matthieu at herrb.eu> wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 05, 2024 at 09:45:51PM +0100, tlaronde at kergis.com wrote:
> > I'm continuing my review and I'm now looking at libxcb and xcbproto.
> > 
> > Is there a goal set to switch from auto* tools to meson/ninja for the
> > maximum of projects?
> > 
> > Since I have to untangle things for my own built framework, I may as
> > well provide meson files (that are undoubtely more readable than the
> > auto* dance) when I am at it...
> > --  
> 
> Hi,
> 
> There are still platforms (OpenBSD, NetBSD at least) which don't have
> python (and thus meson) in their base build system.
> 
> Switching to Meson is forcing us to rewrite a build system that can
> run on those systems.

Have you tried any of the C implementations of the Meson build system
that claim to run with "minimal" dependencies and intentionally without
Python?


Thanks,
pq
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