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

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Ladislav!

On Thu, 6 Feb 2020 00:19:52 +0100
Ladislav Michl <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 05, 2020 at 05:55:15PM -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> > Bernd Zeimetz <address@hidden>:  
> > > Imho the only useful alternative is cmake. Or meson, if you
> > > really think so.  
> > 
> > Both two-phase systems.  Why do people keep building these things?
> > It's a bad idea that never gets better noo matter how often it's
> > repeated.  
> 
> First phase is discovering build environment. So unless you found a
> way how to do this very quickly, people will keep building those
> two-phase systems, just to save time spent waiting for recompile.

scons is very quick to determine the build environment, and then caches
it for later use.  The entire scons time is a tiny fraction of the rest
of the buld, test and install times.

So "
discovering build environment." is no reason for two phase"..

RGDS
GARY
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