On 02/03/2017 10:10 AM, Benda Xu wrote: > William Hubbs <willi...@gentoo.org> writes: > >> I have been looking at the meson build system [1] [2], and I like what I >> see. >> >> I have opened an issue on OpenRC's github wrt migrating OpenRC to the >> meson build system [3]. >> >> As I said on the bug, the downside is the addition of py3 and ninja as >> build time dependencies, but I think the upside (a build system where >> we don't have to worry about parallel make issues or portability) >> outweighs that. >> >> What do folks think here? > > I would discourage it. Making OpenRC build-depend on python introduces > unnecessary complexity that will undermine the portability of OpenRC > sooner or later. > > After all OpenRC is a small program easy to build with a hand-written > Makefile. > > Parallel make issues? No problem let's just solve it. > > > Please, keep it simple.
I'm adding my support to this sentiment -- Kristian Fiskerstrand OpenPGP keyblock reachable at hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net fpr:94CB AFDD 3034 5109 5618 35AA 0B7F 8B60 E3ED FAE3
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