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Re: would it be time to replace scons with meson build system?
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Eric S. Raymond |
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Re: would it be time to replace scons with meson build system? |
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Wed, 5 Feb 2020 19:26:13 -0500 |
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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.
--
<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
- Re: would it be time to replace scons with meson build system?, (continued)
- Re: would it be time to replace scons with meson build system?, Ladislav Michl, 2020/02/05
- Re: would it be time to replace scons with meson build system?, Bernd Zeimetz, 2020/02/05
- Re: would it be time to replace scons with meson build system?, Gary E. Miller, 2020/02/05
- Re: would it be time to replace scons with meson build system?, Gary E. Miller, 2020/02/05
- Re: would it be time to replace scons with meson build system?, Ladislav Michl, 2020/02/05
- Re: would it be time to replace scons with meson build system?, Gary E. Miller, 2020/02/05
- Re: would it be time to replace scons with meson build system?, Ladislav Michl, 2020/02/05
- Re: would it be time to replace scons with meson build system?, Gary E. Miller, 2020/02/05
- Re: would it be time to replace scons with meson build system?,
Eric S. Raymond <=
- Re: would it be time to replace scons with meson build system?, Ladislav Michl, 2020/02/05
- Re: would it be time to replace scons with meson build system?, Paul Fertser, 2020/02/05
- Re: would it be time to replace scons with meson build system?, Gary E. Miller, 2020/02/05
- Re: would it be time to replace scons with meson build system?, Ladislav Michl, 2020/02/05
- Re: would it be time to replace scons with meson build system?, Gary E. Miller, 2020/02/05
- Re: would it be time to replace scons with meson build system?, Ladislav Michl, 2020/02/05
- Re: would it be time to replace scons with meson build system?, Gary E. Miller, 2020/02/05
- Re: would it be time to replace scons with meson build system?, Ladislav Michl, 2020/02/05
- Re: would it be time to replace scons with meson build system?, Gary E. Miller, 2020/02/05
- Re: would it be time to replace scons with meson build system?, Paul Fertser, 2020/02/05