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Hi! |
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On Mon, 30 Jan 2017, William Hubbs wrote: |
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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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Meson isn't even keyworded anywhere but amd64 and x86 and I |
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couldn't find an indication that they care about off-mainstream |
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architectures at all. Yes, it's written in Python as such is more |
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portable than if it were written in C or somesuch, but for a |
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build system, the arch it runs on and targets are more important |
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than for most other programs. |
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As others have pointed out, the gains are not quite as obvious as |
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the potential downsides are. |
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Just my 2 Rappen, |
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Tobias |
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