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On Fri, 3 Feb 2017 10:32:30 +0100 Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: |
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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 |
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>>> what I see. |
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>>> I have opened an issue on OpenRC's github wrt migrating OpenRC to |
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>>> the meson build system [3]. |
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>>> As I said on the bug, the downside is the addition of py3 and ninja |
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>>> as build time dependencies, but I think the upside (a build system |
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>>> where we don't have to worry about parallel make issues or |
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>>> portability) 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 |
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>> introduces unnecessary complexity that will undermine the |
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>> portability of OpenRC 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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+1 |
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Lars Wendler |
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