Re: would it be time to replace scons with meson build system?

[Greg Troxel]

Chris Kuethe <address@hidden> writes:

> You might get better feedback if you were to do up a set of
> patches/PRs that are easy to test, and include some test results, eg.
> does this work out of the box on older embedded linux, on macos, on
> freebsd/netbsd/openbsd, on raspberry pi, illumos... ? Probably a lot
> of us here have the latest version of our preferred linux distribution
> running on x86_64, but we don't want to prevent nice platform-agnostic
> C code from running on any mostly posix environment because the build
> system only understands i686 and x86_64 linux. (See wintel, or
> vaxocentrism - http://catb.org/jargon/html/V/vaxocentrism.html)
>
> And also help us to understand exactly what benefits the new build
> system offers.

A fair point.

scons feels like it is diffficult to deal with, and that it is starting
to be used by very few projects.

SConstruct has 2345 non-comment non-blank lines.   I think that makes it
difficult to deal with.