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On 02/03/2017 10:10 AM, Benda Xu wrote: |
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> William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> writes: |
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>> I have been looking at the meson build system [1] [2], and I like what I |
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>> see. |
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>> I have opened an issue on OpenRC's github wrt migrating OpenRC to the |
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>> meson build system [3]. |
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>> As I said on the bug, the downside is the addition of py3 and ninja as |
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>> build time dependencies, but I think the upside (a build system where |
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>> we don't have to worry about parallel make issues or portability) |
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>> outweighs that. |
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>> What do folks think here? |
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> I would discourage it. Making OpenRC build-depend on python introduces |
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> unnecessary complexity that will undermine the portability of OpenRC |
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> sooner or later. |
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> After all OpenRC is a small program easy to build with a hand-written |
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> Makefile. |
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> Parallel make issues? No problem let's just solve it. |
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> Please, keep it simple. |
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I'm adding my support to this sentiment |
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