On 23/01/21 04:30, 罗勇刚(Yonggang Luo) wrote:
> We could and I did it in the first version. However it's ugly that
the user has to use --python on some setups in order to get a full help
message.
Yeap, but finally configure should gone, so I think --python are
acceptable by user, just need make sure to be noticed when the default
python
are not python3
When configure will be gone, these 200 lines of Perl will disappear with
it, so we don't have to think for future users and developers, but for
the present.
I don't expect configure or Makefile to go away completely, because for
example things such as "git submodule" handling are easier to do in the
shell. However, we also need to evaluate what's the road to a minimal
configure (just like our Makefile is pretty minimal, only tests/tcg
still has lots of build logic). In that respect, automatic parsing
command line simplifies moving things from configure to meson, and that
is true no matter what language the parser is written in.
(BTW, I'm not such a Perl fan. I have only ever written like 3 or 4
programs in Perl).
Paolo
