On 15 Feb 2022 20:25, Jacob Bachmeyer wrote: > Dan Kegel wrote: > > Meson is a candidate for such a next-gen config system. It is in python, > > which does not quite qualify as usable during early uplift/bootstrap, but > > there are C ports in progress, see e.g. https://sr.ht/~lattis/muon/ > > *Please* do not introduce a dependency on Python; they do not worry much > about backwards compatibility. If there is ever a Python 4 with a 3->4 > transition anything like the 2->3 transition, you could end up with > every past release relying on current Python becoming unbuildable. Python 3.0 isn't even compatible with Python 3.10 in some ways. it's a sliding window of time/releases, not a major version skew. > Having complex dependencies for creating the build scripts is one thing, > but needing major packages (like Python) to *use* the build scripts is a > serious problem for anything below the "user application" tier, > especially the "base system" tier. yeah, i see no path forward for requiring Python in the generated configure or Makefile.in files. i wouldn't feel as bad about replacing the current perl code with python to run `automake`, but i don't think the current set of Automake maintainers would agree :). -mike
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