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

[Paul Fertser]

On Wed, Feb 05, 2020 at 04:24:22PM -0800, Gary E. Miller wrote:
> > 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.

$ grep "rm.*scons" build.adoc

> > 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.

Oh sorry, I meant contributors again. In my (probably imaginary) world
the set of people who build free software from sources and the set of
people who contribute to free software projects have very large
intersection, so I tend to use those two different words
interchangeably.

> > 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.

OK, that's just my understanding of the implications of what you said,
I didn't literally mean you had said that. Sorry for the confusion.

> So I'll close here with: ENOPATCH.

Correct, "two cents" messages rarely have patches attached. The
discussion without patches is often useless, that I can agree
with. Though sometimes it's not.

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