Am 30.03.24 um 15:44 schrieb Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek:
Meson outclasses CMake in functionality, clarity, and brevity. I doesn't make sense to consider switching to CMake at this point.
While I do agree on clarity and brevity, I don't on functionality. Meson doesn't allow you do create your own functions. While one should try to avoid them in build systems, there are cases where you need them. I work on a project where they are needed, but it also wouldn't make sense to upstream it because it's too project specific, and creating a loop out of every call like Meson's FAQ recommends (https://mesonbuild.com/FAQ.html#why-doesnt-meson-have-user-defined-functionsmacros) would create one heck of spagetthi code. So yeah, there are edge cases where I would recommend CMake over Meson purely without looking at the rest of the ecosystem. Another is ofc that a quite big chunk of the C and C++ ecosystem uses CMake and integration between build systems kinda sucks (but the CMake developers try to work on making it better by working together with other projects). But I don't think this is the right place to talk about which build system to switch to FOR OTHER PROJECTS. (But if we are at it, ever looked at Zig as a buildsystem for a C or C++ project? I know some companies which do this at this point.) Sincerely Kilian Hanich -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
