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

[Eric S. Raymond]

Greg Troxel <address@hidden>:
> 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.

I might not have made this clear before. I am willing for scons to be
replaced.  It was my choice originally, and I still think a good choice given
that we couldn't know the future - but it has stagnated.

I don't have any opiniomn about what to replace it with, other than
*not autoconf*.
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                <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>