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


From: Eric S. Raymond
Subject: Re: would it be time to replace scons with meson build system?
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2020 19:26:13 -0500
User-agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13)

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>





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