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

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Paul!

On Thu, 6 Feb 2020 03:06:26 +0300
Paul Fertser <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hey Gary,
> 
> On Wed, Feb 05, 2020 at 03:51:52PM -0800, Gary E. Miller wrote:
> > > And yes, I'd say it's likely to make your
> > > users a bit happier.  
> > 
> > No, gpsd users don't care, they just cut/paste the build
> > instructions. Same for cmake, they just cut/paste the build
> > instructions.  
> 
> By users I meant contributors.

Then we are not on the same page at all.  Please say "contributors"
when you mean contrinutors.

> And you have not one but four
> paragraphs explaining them how to properly "clean" the build.

Yeah, some people are hard to teach.  Not that "scons -c" works,
that could be trimmed down.  Patches welcome.

> And
> another different "rm -r" command to clean the SCons database
> mentioned in another part of the doc.

Oh, where?  That is no longer needed.

> I'd say this is a clear
> indication your users get confused by SCons every now and then.

Users get confused by the login prompt.

> You
> say there would be no less confusion with CMake, OK, you might be
> right,

Except, I did not say that.  Please stick to what I say.

> but somehow I've seen more mails expressing unhappiness about
> SCons on this very mailing list than the mails describing unfortunate
> experiences with CMake on all the other lists I read combined.

Yeah, but check the From.  A small batch of repeat whingers.

> > But, if you think you can send in a patch that solves everyone's
> > problems, please do!  Quickly!  
> 
> I do not see a need to hurry with this, Gary.

And there you have it.  Everyone wants someone else to solve an
imaginery problem that does not effect them.

It should be obvious from the stream pf patches that gpsd gets that
anything (seemingly) easy to fix gets patches right away.

So I'll close here with: ENOPATCH.

RGDS
GARY
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