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

[Eric S. Raymond]

Gary E. Miller <address@hidden>:
> One benefit of the current SConstruct is more and more "plain language"
> warnings to users.  Try to do that in a makefile.
> 
> IMHO, way too much of a makefile is undocumented side effects, I prefer
> explicit.

Yeah.  We want something with these advantages - they're important -
but actually mainained and documented.

Was a time I might have considered trying to write a build engine that
didn't suck.  I won't, now, because I think that present-day cost/risk
tradeoffs favor Go's brute-force approach - screw staleness and
dependency analyis, just compile everything in reach every time.
-- 
                <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>

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