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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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Benda |