On 29/09/2024 19:10, Eli Schwartz wrote:
On 9/29/24 1:56 PM, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
Meson came up as an alternative, so the obvious question is whether it
could be used conveniently from within Visual Studio. It takes but one
look at https://mesonbuild.com/Using-with-Visual-Studio.html to see that
no, the instructions ask the developed to use a command-line interface,
which is the opposite of integrating well with an IDE.
In short: If we're serious that we want to stop treating Windows-based
developers as if they were unwanted here, we'll need to stick to CMake.
Hi,
I guess you didn't read the previous comments in this thread? Maybe you
should take more than one look. :)
We cannot expect everyone who wants to build git using meson in Visual
Studio to read this thread and find the message that mentions installing
a plugin. It is much more likely that they, like Johannes, will find the
documentation on the meson website and conclude they need to run some
commands on the commandline. That's a problem with the documentation,
not the person reading it. Even if they do find the plugin [1] it is not
clear that it helps - no where does it say "this enables you to build
software with meson", instead it talks about syntax highlighting, code
snippets and linting for meson files.
Best Wishes
Phillip
[1]
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=mesonbuild.mesonbuild
