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On Tue, Feb 07, 2017 at 01:22:22AM +0100, Maciej Mrozowski wrote: |
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> I'd recommend to jump a bandwagon and switch to CMake. |
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> Yes, it's ugly in certain areas, has its quirks but whoever switches to it |
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> ones, never goes back, and not because of technical debt being too big. |
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> Also because I can help with it (and a lot of folks can), while Meson is still |
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> largely unknown. |
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Thanks for the offer, but i have no interest in CMake. I have heard from |
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multiple sources how difficult it is to work with. |
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The current plan for this, in the upstream issue, is to offer a meson |
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build and keep the makefiles around for a while. |
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I will ask all downstream distros to take a look at the meson build and |
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let me know if there are issues that would block them from using it. |
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On Gentoo, I know of at least these: |
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- Meson needs a new release (0.38.1 should be coming soon) -- actually |
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this affects any distro. |
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- meson itself needs to be keyworded on all of our arches. |
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- ninja needs to be fixed so that it works on amd64 hardened. |
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So, it will be some time before any major changes, like dropping the |
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Makefiles, happen. |
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William |
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