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


From: Ladislav Michl
Subject: Re: would it be time to replace scons with meson build system?
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2020 01:34:03 +0100

On Wed, Feb 05, 2020 at 07:26:13PM -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> Ladislav Michl <address@hidden>:
> > 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.
> 
> No, that's not what I mean by a two-phase system.  A two-phase builder
> generates files in some *other* builder to do its work - usually but
> not always makefiles.  This is orthogonal to whether or not it hasa a
> configuration-discovery phase.

I see, now that makes much more sense. Thanks for a clarification!

        ladis



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