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

[Greg Troxel]

"Gary E. Miller" <address@hidden> writes:

>> SConstruct has 2345 non-comment non-blank lines.   I think that makes
>> it difficult to deal with.
>
> SConstruct is a Python program.  Each and every one of those blank lines
> is mandated by PEP 8, which is the gpsd standard for python program
> formatting.  I'm a big fan of prgrams not all smashed together and
> I like the PEP 8 format.  Nothing difficult, beyond the fact that the
> problem itself it big.

I didn't mean to criticize blank lines and comments.  I explicitly
counted the non-comment non-blank lines because of that.  Agreed that
proper formatting is good.