Hi Mauro, On Wednesday, 7 November 2018 21:53:20 EET Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > Em Wed, 07 Nov 2018 21:35:32 +0200 Laurent Pinchart escreveu: > > On Wednesday, 7 November 2018 21:10:35 EET Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: [snip] > >> I'm with Hans on that matter: better to start with an absolute minimum > >> of dependencies (like just: make, autotools, c, c++, bash), > > > > On a site note, for a new project, we might want to move away from > > autotools. cmake and meson are possible alternatives that are way less > > painful. > > Each toolset has advantages or disadvantages. We all know how > autotools can be painful. > > One bad thing with cmake is that they deprecate stuff. A long-live project > usually require several" backward" compat stuff at cmake files in order > to cope with different behaviors that change as cmake evolves. I don't know how much of a problem that would be. My experience with cmake is good so far, but I haven't used it in a large scale project with 10+ years of contributions :-) > I never used mason myself. It's the build system we picked for libcamera, I expect to provide feedback in the not too distant future. [snip] -- Regards, Laurent Pinchart
