On Tue, Feb 07, 2017 at 01:22:22AM +0100, Maciej Mrozowski wrote: > I'd recommend to jump a bandwagon and switch to CMake. > > Yes, it's ugly in certain areas, has its quirks but whoever switches to it > ones, never goes back, and not because of technical debt being too big. > > Also because I can help with it (and a lot of folks can), while Meson is > still > largely unknown.
Thanks for the offer, but i have no interest in CMake. I have heard from multiple sources how difficult it is to work with. The current plan for this, in the upstream issue, is to offer a meson build and keep the makefiles around for a while. I will ask all downstream distros to take a look at the meson build and let me know if there are issues that would block them from using it. On Gentoo, I know of at least these: - Meson needs a new release (0.38.1 should be coming soon) -- actually this affects any distro. - meson itself needs to be keyworded on all of our arches. - ninja needs to be fixed so that it works on amd64 hardened. So, it will be some time before any major changes, like dropping the Makefiles, happen. William
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