On Fri, Oct 18, 2024 at 8:24 AM Patrick Steinhardt <ps@xxxxxx> wrote: > Introduce support for the Meson build system, a "modern" meta build > system that supports many different plaforms, including Linux, macOS, > Windows and BSDs. Meson supports different backends, including Ninja, > Xcode and Microsoft Visual Studio. Several common IDEs provide an > integration with it. s/plaforms/platforms/ > The biggest contender compared to Meson is probably CMake as outlined in > our "Documentation/technical/build-systems.txt" file. Based on my own > personal experience from working with both build systems extensively I > strongly favor Meson over CMake. In my opinion, it feels significantly > easier to use with a syntax that feels more like a "real" programming > language. The second big reason is that Meson supports Rust natively, > which may prove to be important given that the project is likely to pick > up Rust as another language eventually. s/is likely to/may/ > # Execute single test interactively to allow fordebugging. > $ meson test 't0000-*' --interactive --test-args=-ix s/fordebugging/for debugging/ > - We do not install dashed binaries into `$libexec/git-core` anymore. > So there won't e.g. be a symlink for git-add(1). These are not > required by modern Git and there isn't really much of a usecase for > those anymore. By not installing those symlinks we thus start the > deprecation of this layout. s/usecase/use case/ > - We're targeting a Meson 1.3.0, which has been released relatively > recently November 2023. The only feature we use from that version is > `fs.relative_to()`, which we could replace if necessary. If so, we > could start to target Meson 1.0.0 and newer, released in December > 2022. s/targeting a Meson/targeting Meson/
