On 13/01/21 11:31, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
meson-buildoptions.json | 717 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
I'm not a fan of seeing this file introduced as it has significant
overlap with meson_options.txt. I feel like the latter has enough
information present to do an acceptable job for help output. After
all that's sufficient if we were using meson directly.
Sorry, I missed this remark. meson-buildoptions.json is not
hand-written. It is the result of Meson's own parsing meson_options.txt
exported as JSON.
In the commit message "because we parse command-line options before
meson is available, the introspection output is stored in the source
tree. This is the reason for the unattractive diffstat; the number of
JSON lines added is higher than the number of configure lines removed.
Of course the latter are code that must be maintained manually and the
former is not".
Paolo
