Luboš Luňák kirjoitti 13.2.2020 klo 19.57:
On Thursday 13 of February 2020, Miklos Vajna wrote:* Meson build system experiments by Jussi Pakkanen (Ilmari) + Ilmari’s perspective: want to make the codebase more approachable for newcomersIn what way? Newcomers need the Wiki page that basically tells them to "./autogen.sh --enable-dbgutil && make", which is neither that difficult nor would Meson make it noticeably simpler. Probably the only non-approachable parts of the build system is solenv/gbuild, which is not for newcomers, and touching that would be similar to hacking on Meson internals, which presumably is also not for newcomers.
By "newcomers" I mean everyone without solid experience with writing makefiles. On my own part I remember the frustration when wrestling with the Help content htmlisation. I had to give up and wait for gbuild/make gurus to solve everything and I was not the only one. Not a very efficient way of working.
I will get back to this after interviewing people involved in autotools -> Meson migrations, so we have something more concrete to chew on.
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